Athiashenriotis Özdikmen

De Moraes, Gilberto J., Britto, Erika P. J., Mineiro, Jefferson L. De C. & Halliday, Bruce, 2016, Catalogue of the mite families Ascidae Voigts & Oudemans, Blattisociidae Garman and Melicharidae Hirschmann (Acari: Mesostigmata), Zootaxa 4112 (1), pp. 1-299 : 21

Athiashenriotis Özdikmen

FEMALE

Gnathosoma. Anterior margin of epistome irregularly rounded. Inner palp trochanter seta not distinctly elongate. Deutosternum very narrow, with delimiting lateral lines and eight rows of 2–3 denticles each. Fixed cheliceral digit with five teeth in addition to apical tooth; movable digit with two teeth in addition to apical tooth.

Idiosoma. Elongate. Dorsum: podonotal and opisthonotal shields fused, ornamented, with lateral incisions; without transverse and nearly straight lines, delineated strip along lateral margins or posterior tubercles; anterior end of dorsal shield not strongly deflexed. Podonotal region of shield with 14 pairs of setae. Opisthonotal region of shield with 16 pairs of setae. Unsclerotised lateral cuticle with 11 pairs of setae, including r3, which is similar to neighbouring setae; UR setae absent. Dorsal and lateral setae of idiosoma of similar lengths, much shorter than distance to subsequent setae (except Z5, about twice as long as most other setae), acicular and smooth. Venter: presternal platelets indistinct. Sternal shield much longer than wide, with three pairs of setae of similar lengths (st1–st3) and three pairs of lyrifissures (iv1–iv3, the latter on posterior shield margin, which is slightly convex); st2 slightly closer to st3 than to st1. Seta st4 inserted on unsclerotised cuticle. Genital shield relatively narrow, not including iv5 or st5; anterior hyaline region broad, convex; posterior region slightly convex. Two pairs of elongate platelets between genital and ventrianal shields. Opisthogaster with six pairs of setae in addition to circumanal setae, none of which on ellipsoidal (longer axis transverse) anal shield; para-anal setae inserted at level of midlength of anal opening, about half as long as post-anal seta. Anal opening not enlarged, about 1/4 of shield length, at shield centre. Endopodal shield reduced between coxae I–II, so that sternal shield shows no lateral projection in this region; section beside coxae II–III fused with sternal shield; section behind sternal shield apparently absent. Peritreme. Short, reaching level of id5 (lyrifissure between s4–s5).

Legs. All legs with pretarsi. Setation of legs I–IV, genu: 12, 11, 9, 9; tibia: 13, 9, 8, 10. Legs without macrosetae.

MALE: unknown.