Atropacarus (Hoplophorella) brevipilis ( Balogh, 1958 )

Niedbała, Wojciech, 2017, Ptyctimous mites (Acari, Oribatida) of Tanzania, Acarologia 57 (4), pp. 957-1072 : 1050

Atropacarus (Hoplophorella) brevipilis ( Balogh, 1958)

( Fig. 64 A-F)

Steganacarus brevipilis Balogh, 1958 .

Atropacarus (Hoplophorella) brevipilis: Niedbała 2001 .

Diagnosis — Measurements of a specimen from Kenya ( Niedbała 1992): prodorsum: length 432, width 308; notogaster: length 846, width 614, height 595. Large-sized species; colour light brown, surface covered with small concavities. Prodorsum with strong median crista, median sigillar field, narrow at the base and enlarging trapezoidally towards rostral setae, longer than laterals; lateral carinae extend beyond sinus; sensilli fusiform, with short pedicel and oval, smooth head; other setae short, smooth, spiniform; in> ro> ss> le; exobothridial vestigial. Notogaster with small (c 1 <… c 1 - d 1), smooth, spiniform setae; setae c 1-3 remote from anterior bor- der, setae c 1 and c 2 more than setae c 3; vestigial setae f 1 on the level of h 1 setae. Ventral region; setae h of mentum shorter than distance between them; formula of genital setae: 6: 3; setae ad 2 the longest and the thickest of all on anoadanal plates, situated near paraxial border, very close ad 1 setae. Chaetome of legs complete; setae d of femora I remote from distal end of article.

Locality in Tanzania: “Tanganika”: Balogh, 1958, Niedbała 2001.

Distribution — Afrotropical, central and eastern parts.

Figures

FIGURE 64: Atropacarus (Hoplophorella) brevipilis (Balogh, 1958) (specimen from Kenya): A – prodorsum, dorsal view; B – prodorsum, lateral view; C – opisthosoma, lateral view; D – left genitoaggenital plate; E – left anoadanal plate; G – trochanter and femur of leg I.