Poropodalius Karg, 2000

Castilho, Raphael C., De, Gilberto J. & Halliday, Bruce, 2012, Revision of the genera Interrhodeus, Pennarhodeus and Poropodalius (Acari: Rhodacaridae), Zootaxa 3335, pp. 1-28 : 14

Genus Poropodalius Karg, 2000

Poropodalius Karg, 2000a: 252 .

Poropodalius .— Karg & Schorlemmer, 2009: 66.

Type species: Poropodalius hexapennatus Karg, 2000 , by original designation.

Diagnosis (adult female and male). Arthrodial process of chelicera with a short coronet-like fringe; epistome with a smooth antero-medial projection, about uniform width or wider at the base, flanked on each side by shorter projection, these either uniform width and smooth or triangular and serrate; seta h3 directly posterior to h1 and mediad or slightly postero-mediad to h2; dorsal idiosomal setae smooth or with distal half pilose; podonotal shield with 21–22 pairs of setae and four scleronoduli between setae j5 and j6 (except P. basisetae , where scleronoduli are between setae j6 and z6); unsclerotised integument laterad to podonotal shield with one or two pairs of setae; opisthonotal shield with 15 pairs of setae; with four or five pairs of R setae on unsclerotised integument laterad to opisthonotal shield in female and on ventrianal shield in male; presternal shields absent; ventrianal shield with five or six pairs of setae in female and 12 pairs of setae in male; unsclerotised integument along anterior margin of ventrianal shield with two pairs of setae in female and without setae in male; with zero or one pair of metapodal plates in female and without metapodal plates in male; peritreme extending anteriorly to level of median region of coxa II; pretarsus I either a single, sessile, curved claw or an elongate ambulacral stalk, a pair of strong claws and three rounded pulvillar lobes, with the same length or shorter than pretarsi of legs II–IV; seta pl 4 of tarsus IV absent. Numbers of setae on legs I–IV: coxa: 2, 2, 2, 1; trochanter: 6, 5, 5, 5; femur: 13, 11, 6, 6; genu: 13, 11, 9, 10; tibia: 14, 10, 8, 10; tarsus II–IV: 18, 18, 17. Adult male with spermatodactyl abruptly bent dorsally and with a spur-like ventral seta on each of femur, genu and tibia II.