Brachytydeus juanjosei Escobar-Garcia, Ueckermann & André, 2023

Júniordeandrade, Daniel, Da. Ueckermann & André, Henri M., 2023, A new species of the genus Brachytydeus Thor sensu André (Acari: Tydeidae) and a key to all known species from Peru, Zootaxa 5319 (2), pp. 263-274 : 264

Brachytydeus juanjosei Escobar-Garcia, Ueckermann & André sp. nov.

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Type material: Holotype female, Peru, campus of the UNP, Piura, (05°10’46.89”S; 80°37’04.31”W; 36 m. a.s.l.), August 31, 2020; Hector Escobar (SL01LA68) . Paratypes: nine females, seven males, and one tritonymph on separate microscope slides in UNP (SL01LA68); two females and one male, same data as holotype, on microscope slides in ESALQ, collected between August 31, 2020 to January 04, 2021.

General diagnosis. Female: the new species presents the phanerotaxy of the genus. Dorsal idiosomal setae short, smooth, and club-shaped distally. The striation pattern in adults of Veniparalorryia type. Reticulation is limited to two areas, AA0 (aspidosoma in front of vi) and A(h 1)(h 2)(ps 1) (i.e. restricted to the posterior tip).