Litoribates, Pfingstl, Tobias & Schatz, Heinrich, 2017

Pfingstl, Tobias & Schatz, Heinrich, 2017, New littoral mite species (Acari, Oribatida, Fortuyniidae) from the Galápagos archipelago, with ecological and zoogeographical considerations, Zootaxa 4244 (1), pp. 39-64 : 49

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4244.1.2

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:43D2EF53-0A38-437A-A704-3808DDC35B62

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5621219

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/606587A5-FFC8-2A3E-ABD4-FCC7FD212530

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Plazi

scientific name

Litoribates
status

gen. nov.

Litoribates View in CoL gen. nov.

Diagnosis. Medium sized (307–342 µm body length) brown sclerotized intertidal mites. Lamellar ridges present, slender and located close to lateral face of prodorsum. Sensillus slightly fusiform, pectinate. Bothridium incorporated, not projecting. Notogaster circular with 14 pairs of setae. Epimeral setation 3-1-2-2. Four pairs of genital setae. Anal plates clearly triangular. Trochanter III and IV with obvious dorsal spur. Femoral carinae on legs I and II absent. All genua with bulgy ventral transversal ridge. Juveniles with slightly foveate centrodorsal plate.

Type species: Litoribates caelestis sp. nov.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Sarcoptiformes

SubOrder

Oribatida

Family

Fortuyniidae

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