Centrouropoda, Berlese, 1917

Abo-Shnaf, Reham I. A. & Allam, Sally F. M., 2019, A new species of Centrouropoda (Acari: Uropodidae: Uropodina), with a key to the world species of the genus, Zootaxa 4706 (4), pp. 501-516 : 512

Key to known Centrouropoda species based on adult females and males

Centrouropoda (Aegyptus) alhassa ( Al-Dhafar & Al-Qahtani, 2012) was not included in the present key because we unable to examine the type specimen of this species, and the original description was brief, without illustrations or measurements. Also Centrouropoda rhombogyna ( Berlese, 1916) was not included because the original description was very brief:

1. Posterior end pointed (V-shaped)......................................................................... 2

- Posterior end rounded (C-shaped)........................................................................ 3

2. Ventrum with two pairs of long pilose submarginal setae in female, and four pairs in male............................................................................................. Centrouropoda zaheri ( Abd El-Ghani, 2009)

- Ventrum with four pairs of long pilose submarginal setae in female, and five pairs in male.............................................................................. Centrouropoda rhynchophorus ( El-Bishlawy & Allam, 2007)

3. Seta h4 smooth, dorsal chaetotaxy and gnathosoma of male similar to female..................................................... Centrouropoda almerodai Hiramatsu & Hirschmann, 1992 , in Wiśniewski, Hirschmann & Hiramatsu, 1992

- Seta h4 pilose, dorsal chaetotaxy and gnathosoma of male different from that of female.............................. 4

4. Setae h2 and h4 of equal length, ventrum with eight pairs of short aciculate submarginal setae in female................................................................................... Centrouropoda rackae Hirschmann, 1975

- Seta h4 about 1.6 times as h2, ventrum with three pairs of long pilose submarginal setae in femal e ............................................................................................. Centrouropoda bahariyaensis n. sp.