Paracamisia, Olszanowski, Ziemowit & Norton, Roy A., 2002

Olszanowski, Ziemowit & Norton, Roy A., 2002, Paracamisia osornensis gen. n., sp. n. (Acari: Oribatida) from Valdivian forest soil in Chile, Zootaxa 25, pp. 1-15 : 2

Paracamisia gen. n.

Diagnosis

Camisiid mites (Grandjean 1953, Sitnikova 1975) with the following combination of adult characters. Prodorsum densely and deeply foveate; porose bothridial saccule unusually large. Notogaster strongly convex; cuticle smooth, rather shiny, without longitudinal ridges or lateral folds and without suprapleural scissure separating dorsal and lateral parts of plate; with 15 pairs of setae plus alveolar vestiges of pair f1; setae without basal apophyses or tubercles and of diverse lengths (rows h and p shorter than others). Coxisternal pairs fused medially; setation: 3­1­3­3. Preanal plate distinct, triangular, porose. Aggenital, anal and adanal setation 2, 2, and 3 pairs, respectively; genital plates transversely divided by poorly sclerotized band, medial region of plates without longitudinal, submarginal carina. Stenarthric subcapitulum with two pairs of medial genal setae (m) and two pairs of adoral setae; palp setation 0­1­0­3­7. Tarsi monodactylous. Solenidial formulae (legs I­IV): genua 1­1­1­1; tibiae 2­1­1­1; tarsi 3­2­0­0.

Type species

Paracamisia osornensis sp. n.