Holoparasitus crassisetosus, Juvara-Bals & Witalinski, 2000

Witaliński, Wojciech, 2017, Key to the world species of Holoparasitus Oudemans, 1936 (Acari: Parasitiformes: Parasitidae), Zootaxa 4277 (3), pp. 301-351 : 305

Holoparasitus crassisetosus species-group (Witaliński, 2016)

Diagnosis. Both sexes. Gnathotectum trispinate; gland pores gv1 present; gland pores gv2 located in unmodified cuticle.

Female. Gnathotectum regularly trispinate; presternal plate with the anterior margin smooth, lateral platelets free or one-sidedly fused to the anterior end of the presternal plate; sternum entire, with regular reticulation, axial granular or parallelly reticulated band absent; sternal anterior margin developed normally, does not overlap presternal plate; posterior paragynial lobes in close proximity of each other; the thickening of the anterior paragynial edge facing coxa III present; central epigynial prong moderately sized and triangular, the thickening of subapical epigynial structure well visible, compact, anteriorly rounded; well sclerotised endogynium of a soupspoon shape, composed of very small, roundish and concaved cup and a protrusion directed dorsally.

Male. Gnathotectum trispinate-type, the central prong well pronounced and acute, whereas the lateral prongs minute; hypostome regularly triangular and moderately sclerotised; hypostomatic setae on the entire cuticle, not separated by lateral and posterior incisions; corniculi with circular lamellar protrusion located adaxially; excipulum on the sternum absent; genital lamina with the well sclerotised subgenital microsclerite and long, acute hyaline lateral protrusions; pedipalp trochanter with the v1 seta simple and thickened basally, the v2 seta barbed terminally; pedipalp femur bears a moderately pronounced ventral tubercle; Fe II spur conical, with a small terminal segment, axillary process settled on a slope of femoral spur; spur on Ge II small and semicircular, settled in the middle of a segment’s length.

Included species:

1. H. crassisetosus Juvara-Bals & Witaliński, 2000 2. H. digitiformis Juvara-Bals & Witaliński, 2000