Protophthiracarus turianiensis Niedbała et Starý, 2015

Niedbała, Wojciech, 2017, Ptyctimous mites (Acari, Oribatida) of Tanzania, Acarologia 57 (4), pp. 957-1072 : 1033

Protophthiracarus turianiensis Niedbała et Starý, 2015

( Fig. 52 A-H)

Diagnosis — Measurements of holotype: prodorsum: length 480, width 328, height 247; notogaster: length 949, width 687, height 646. Large-sized species; colour light brown; surface of body alveolate and covered with strong sculpture. Prodorsum with distinct median crista; above the bothridium strong roller present and continued in lateral carinae; posterior furrows feeble; sigillar fields not visible because strong integument; sensilli long, narrow without head with feeble spines at tip; interlamellar setae fairly long, thick covered with small spines in distal end; lamellar setae spiniform, rough; rostral setae thick, obtuse, rough curved inwards; ss> in> ro> le; exobothridial setae vestigial. Notogaster with setae fairly long (c 1 <c 1 - d 1), thick covered with small spines in distal end, some setae from one side, some setae from both sides; setae of row c remote from anterior margin, c 2 and c 3 remote more than setae c 1; vestigial setae f 1 and all lyrifissures not visible because strong sculpture. Ventral region; setae h of mentum shorter than distance between them; genitoaggenital plates with 9 pairs of setae with formula: 5(4+1): 4; anoadanal plates each with 5 short, rough setae, setae ad 2 the longest and thick, setae an 2 longer than setae ad 1 and an 1, setae ad 3 the shortest. Legs: formulae of setae and solenidia of “complete type”; setae d on femora I slightly remote from distal end of article .

Localities in Tanzania: The Nguru Mts: Niedbała et Starý, 2015a.

Distribution — Afrotropical species known only from Tanzania, probably endemic.

Figures

FIGURE 52: Protophthiracarus turianiensis Niedbała et Starý, 2015 (holotype): A – prodorsum, dorsal view; B – prodorsum, lateral view; C – opisthosoma, lateral view; D – mentum of subcapitulum; E – left genitoaggenital plate; F – fragment of paraxial margin of left genitoaggenital plate; G – left anoadanal plate; H – trochanter and femur of leg I.