Copidognathus remipes (Trouessart, 1894)

Durucan, Furkan, Paz, Juan Carlos De La & Hernández-Teixidor, David, 2023, Halacaridae (Acari) from Tenerife (Canary Islands), Persian Journal of Acarology 12 (1), pp. 1-19 : 6

Copidognathus remipes (Trouessart, 1894)

Material examined One male (FDHAL-21/7), El Pris (Amphiora sp., 2 m).

Diagnosis

The male specimen was 310 µm in length and 160 µm width ( Fig. 3G ). Copidognathus remipes is very similar to C. gibbus . The most marked differences between these two species are as follows: C. remipes is smaller than C. gibbus ; the idiosoma color of C. remipes darker than C. gibbus ; and C. remipes has a pair of short, weak and narrow costae on the PD ( Durucan 2019b). Anterior dorsal plate “A” shaped costae, OC longer than wide (80 µm/20 µm), telofemura I wide ventrolateral lamella.

Figures

Figure 3. Light-microscope images of halacarid species from Tenerife – A. Agaue adriatica (female); B. Agauopsis brevipalpus (female); C. Agauopsis microhyncha (male); D. Agauopsis tricuspis (male); E. Copidognathus lamelloides (male); F. Copidognathus magnipalpus (male); G. Copidognathus remipes (male); H. Halacarus actenos (male); I. Halacarus subtilis (female) (Scale bars: 100 µm).