Trigonuropoda Trägårdh, 1952

Kontschán, Jenő & Starý, Josef, 2013, Description of Trigonuropoda (Foveolatatrigon) mahunkaorum sp. n. (Acari: Uropodina: Trigonuropodidae): the first record of the genus Trigonuropoda in Madagascar, African Invertebrates 54 (2), pp. 409-409 : 410

Genus Trigonuropoda Trägårdh, 1952

Subgenus Foveolatatrigon Hirschmann, 1979

Hirschmann (1975) divided the genus Trigonuropoda into several species groups, which were mentioned later as “Stadiengattung” (maybe subgenus) in his new system (Hirschmann 1979). Kontschán (2008) used the cubabaloghia species group as Baloghiatrigon subgenus after Hirschmann’s (1979) system, therefore we follow this logic in this paper as well, and we placed the new species into the Foveolatatrigon Hirschmann, 1979 subgenus, which was discussed as “difoveolata-group” in other Hirschmann’s systems ( Wiśniewski & Hirschmann 1993). Species of the subgenus Foveolatatrigon are easy to separate from the other trigonuropodid species on the basis of the following combination of characters: (1) the inner margin of the marginal shield is undulate, (2) anterior pit absent on the dorsal idiosoma, and (3) caudal area is not elevated from the neighbouring regions of the dorsal shield.

The species of the subgenus Foveolatatrigon are recorded from Philippines, Taiwan, Japan, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Guinea, Australia and Peru (Wiśniewski 1993). This tropical and subtropical distribution suggested that Foveolatatrigon can be found in the Afrotropics as well; hence the finding of a new species has not been unexpected.