Platyacarus caulifer, Mironov & Literak & Sychra & Capek, 2017

Mironov, Sergey V., Literak, Ivan, Sychra, Oldrich & Capek, Miroslav, 2017, Feather mites of the subfamily Proctophyllodinae (Acari: Proctophyllodidae) from passerines (Aves: Passeriformes) in Costa Rica, Zootaxa 4297 (1), pp. 1-105 : 25-26

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4297.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:4FFD1D74-8107-475F-920C-DF28AFC48FF9

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5233406

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03DD87E8-FFB8-2D50-FF52-70A4FBF8FF77

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Platyacarus caulifer
status

 

Species group caulifer

Diagnosis. Both sexes. Setae f2 absent, prodorsal shield entire, hysteronotal shield with lacunae, prodorsal shield with or without lacunae. Male. Adanal suckers with corolla dentate, only postero-mesal pair of adanal shields present, epimerites I fused into a Y, adanal apodemes present, terminal lamellae long spatuliform (3–4 times longer than wide), aedeagus extending beyond posterior margins of opisthosomal lobes. Female. Primary spermaduct short, with monotonous proximal enlargement from middle of spermaduct toward spermatheca and with distal enlargement (bursa copulatrix) constituting half the length of this spermaduct, head of spermatheca small hemispheric.

Remark. This new species group includes the single species described below.

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