Acrotritia peruensis ( Hammer, 1961 )

Niedbała, Wojciech & Starý, Josef, 2015, Three new species of the family Phthiracaridae (Acari, Oribatida) from Bolivia, Zootaxa 3918 (1), pp. 128-140 : 137

Acrotritia peruensis ( Hammer, 1961)

( Fig. 4A )

Measurements of the specimen from locality BOL-011. Prodorsum, length 240, height 91, sensillus 68; prodorsal setae: interlamellar (in) 126, lamellar (le) 76, rostral (ro) 63, exobothridial (ex) 18; notogaster: length 480, height 313.

Remarks. The specimens from Bolivia (BOL-011) have shorter upper lateral carinae, which are less than a third of the lower carinae (instead more than half of the lower carinae).

Figures

FIGURE 4 A – G. A, Acrotritia peruensis (Hammer, 1961), A, prodorsum, lateral view of the specimen from BOL- 011; B – F, Acrotritia vestita (Berlese, 1913), B, prodorsum with anterior part of notogaster, lateral view; C – F, tarsal claws; C, claws I; D, claws II; E, claws III; F, claw of tarsus IV; G. Steganacarus (Rhacaplacarus) sedecimus Niedbała, 2004, G, opisthosoma, lateral view of one of specimens from BOL- 011.