Bulbolaelaps, Faraji & Zare & Rahmani, 2021

Faraji, Farid, Zare, Mohsen & Rahmani, Hasan, 2021, A new genus and species of Digamasellidae (Acari: Mesostigmata) displaying some extraordinary gnathosomal structures, Acarologia 61 (4), pp. 967-977 : 968

Bulbolaelaps n. gen.

Zoobank: E66CAB95-8D7E-41C3-8AE1-2F083488D393

Type species: Bulbolaelaps bossei

Diagnosis Podonotal and opisthonotal shields separated in both sexes; in males, opisthonotal shield fused with opisthogastric shield; scleronoduli present; almost all dorsal shield setae barbed (except S5, long, simple and mainly coiled), most of them apically bulbous; sternal seta St3 migrated inwards; palps with bulbous swollen protuberance on the venter of the palptrochanter; corniculi weakly formed and epistome weakly sclerotised and fimbriated dorsally; hypostomal setae h1 and h2 aligned more or less transversely; deutosternal groove narrow; ventral base of female cheliceral digit with a spine-like projection; setae ad1 and pd1

on legs II–IV narrowly lanceolate apically.

Etymology The generic name Bulbolaelaps refers to the extraordinary bulbous shape of the protuberance on the venter of the palptrochanter.