Steganacarus pardinus

van der Hammen, L., 1959, Berlese's Primitive Oribatid Mites, Zoologische Verhandelingen 40, pp. 1-93 : 44

Steganacarus pardinus (Berlese, 1916)

Hoploderma pardinum Berlese , 1916b, p. 337.

The present species was described after a specimen from East Africa; the type (no. 183/47) is still present in the Collection.

Berlese compares the species with magnus and anomalus and in general shape it reminds indeed of these species. The notogastral hairs are, however, very small, hardly visible, slightly pointing backwards, and irregularly curved. The type-specimen is closed (as Berlese mentioned already); the colour is dark-brown.