Interrhodeus Karg

Castilho, Raphael C., De, Gilberto J. & Halliday, Bruce, 2012, Revision of the genera Interrhodeus, Pennarhodeus and Poropodalius (Acari: Rhodacaridae), Zootaxa 3335, pp. 1-28 : 2

Genus Interrhodeus Karg

Interrhodeus Karg, 2000a: 258 .

Type species: Interrhodeus brevicornus Karg, 2000 , by original designation.

Diagnosis (adult female). Arthrodial process of chelicera with a short coronet-like fringe; epistome with a serrate antero-medial projection of about uniform width, flanked on each side by a slightly longer and serrate projection; seta h3 directly posterior to h1 and distinctly postero-mediad to h2; podonotal shield with 22 pairs of setae (setae s1 and r1 absent) and without scleronoduli; opisthonotal shield with 20 pairs of setae; all dorsal idiosomal setae smooth; laciniae of tritosternum separated from each other only in the distal half; presternal shields absent; ventrianal shield with five pairs of setae in addition to the circum-anal setae; unsclerotised integument around ventrianal shield with two pairs of setae; with a pair of elongate metapodal plates; peritreme extending anteriorly to mid-level of coxa II; pretarsus I present; seta pl 4 of tarsus IV absent. Numbers of setae on legs I–IV: coxa: 2, 2, 2, 1; trochanter: 6, 5, 5, 5; femur: 13, 11, 6, 6; genu: 13, 11, 9, 10; tibia: 14, 10, 8, 10; tarsus II–IV: 18, 18, 17.