Tumoris Huang, 2001: 98

Wang, Chin-Fah, Kuo, Chi-Chien, Jeng, Ming-Luen & Huang, Kun-Wei, 2011, Morphometric analyses reveal synonymy of two monotypic genera, Huangiella and Tumoris (Acari, Eriophyoidea, Eriophyidae), ZooKeys 102, pp. 1-11 : 6-7

Tumoris Huang, 2001: 98 Plate 1a, b, c, d

Absentia Huang, 2001: 58 (preoc., Absentia Togashi, 1990)

Absentia lanyuensis Huang - type species (= Tumoris sanasaii Huang, syn. n.)

Huangiella Kammerer, 2006: 269 (nom. nov. pro Absentia Huang)(= Tumoris , syn. n.)

Type species:

Tumoris sanasaii Huang, by original designation.

Redefinition of the genus.

Body spindle-shape, narrowing abruptly posteriorly; shield pentagonal, lobe present, with bulge between scapular tubercles, scapular tubercles set ahead of rear shield margin, seta directed upward; leg segments normal, coxae with 3 pairs of tubercles and seta, hind genual seta absent; empodium simple; opisthosoma differentiated into broader dorsal annuli and narrower ventral annuli, first dorsal annulus broad, fused forming a broad plate joined to prodorsal shield, dorsum with 3 ridges, median ridge ending before submedian ridges, the second ventral tubercle and setae (e) absent; coverflap with short ridges at base.

Differential diagnosis.

This genus is close to Proneotegonotus Mohanasundaram 1983, but differs from the latter by the absence of the second ventral tubercle and setae (e), presence of the first ventral tubercles and setae (d), and a bulge between the dorsal tubercles in prodorsal shield.

Classification.

In Huang (2001b) Tumoris was assigned to Tegonotini by the presence of lateral lobes in opisthosoma. After examining more specimens from several localities, we found the lateral lobes previously recognized were actually the submedian ridges on the dorsal opisthosoma (Pl. 1, b). According to the scapular tubercles located ahead of the rear shield, we re-assign this genus to Phyllocoptini .