Gamasiphoides Womersley, 1956

Karg, W. & Schorlemmer, A., 2011, New Insights Into The Systematics Of Parasitiformes (Acarina) With New Species From South America, Acarologia 51 (1), pp. 3-29 : 19

Gamasiphoides Womersley, 1956

Diagnosis — Adults with a holonotal shield, which may or may not be fused to ventro-anal shield, peritrematal shields fused to exopodal IV shields, exopodal III shields are split, two pairs of distinct pre-endopodal shields, in females sternometasternal shield fused to endopodals II and III, endopodal IV shields separate and well developed, in males sterno-genital shield fused to endopodals II, III and IV, spermatodactyl like a finger united at the basis of the movable cheliceral digit, chaetotaxy of legs: genu III (2, 4/1, 1), genu IV (2, 5/1, 1).

The genus was revised by Karg (1976, 1993b). Diagnoses of 16 species were provided, and eleven species described as new. In the following section of our investigation we describe two new species and arrange the differential diagnoses as a key for the new and known species.