Paradinychus species

Kontschán, Jenő & Starý, Josef, 2011, Uropodina species from Vietnam (Acari: Mesostigmata), Zootaxa 2807, pp. 1-28 : 15

Key to the adults Paradinychus species

Information from Berlese (1916), Hiramatsu (1982) and Hirschmann (1981) is based on their illustrations.

1. Dorsal idiosoma with two caudal platelets.................................. P. fistulata ( Hiramatsu, 1982) comb. nov.

- Dorsal idiosoma with more than two caudal platelets.......................................................... 2

2. Pygidial shield with ornamentation........................................................................ 3

- Pygidial shield without ornamentation....................................................... P. pilosus sp. nov.

3. Sternal shield of male with ornamention anterior to genital shield, genital shield of female linguliform................................................................................................... P. venusta ( Berlese, 1916)

- Sternal shield of male smooth anterior to genital shield, genital shield of female scutiform................................................................................................. P. ornata (Hirschmann, 1981) comb. nov.