Phytoptipalpus Trägårdh, 1904

Khanjani, Masoumeh, Khanjani, Mohammad & Seeman, Owen D., 2012, The false spider mites of the genera Aegyptobia Sayed and Phytoptipalpus Trägårdh (Acari: Tenuipalpidae) from Iran, Zootaxa 3295, pp. 30-58 : 47

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.213769

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6166823

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scientific name

Phytoptipalpus Trägårdh, 1904
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Genus Phytoptipalpus Trägårdh, 1904

Type species: Phytoptipalpus paradoxus Trägårdh, 1904 , by monotypy

Diagnosis (based on Meyer & Van Dis 1993). Body ovate to elliptical; adults sometimes larviform, with 3 pairs of legs; rostral shield absent; anterior margin of prodorsal shield rounded or with 2 blunt lobes; dorsal setae narrowly to broadly lanceolate, or setiform, sparsely serrate; length of dorsal setae usually subequal, but dorsocentral setae usually shorter than sublateral and lateral setae; prodorsum striate, rugose or areolate; hysterosoma striate or rugose; hysterosoma with 12–13 pairs of setae (f2 sometimes absent). Intercoxal area with setae 3a and usually with 4a; genital shield with 2 pairs of setae (g1–g2), arranged in transverse row and 2 pairs of anal setae (ps1– 2), usually arranged along medial edge of anal shields. Ventral plate weakly to moderately wellformed. Palp tarsus usually with 3 phaneres, sometimes with 2 (lacking 1 eupathidion). Tarsal claws uncinate.

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