Linotetranus Berlese, 1910 (Females)

Bagheri, Mohammad, Irani-Nejad, Karim Haddad, Kamali, Karim, Khanjani, Mohammad, Saboori, Alireza & Lotfollahi, Parisa, 2008, A new species of Linotetranus (Acari: Prostigmata: Linotetranidae) from Iran, Zootaxa 1914, pp. 65-68 : 65

Key to the species of Linotetranus Berlese, 1910 (Females)

1 Setae e4 on caudal area absent ............................................................................... L. achrous Baker & Pritchard, 1953

- Setae e4 on caudal area present ..................................................................................................................................... 2

2 With 2 pairs of genital setae .......................................................................... L. ramosus Meyer & Ueckermann, 1997

- With 3 pairs of genital setae......................................................................................................................................... 3

3 Dorsal caudal area with transverse striae ............................................................ L. protractulus Athias-Henriot, 1961

- Dorsal caudal area smooth or with irregular striae ...................................................................................................... 4

4 Palptibia with 1 seta ..................................................................................................................................................... 5

- Palptibia with 2 setae ................................................................................................................................................... 6

5 Palpgenu with 1 seta ......................................................................................................... L. cylindricus Berlese, 1910

- Palpgenu with 2 setae ................................................................................... L . amiculus Meyer & Ueckermann, 1997

6 Genu I with 4 setae ................................................................................. L. edenvillensis Meyer & Ueckermann, 1997

- Genu I with 5 setae....................................................................................................................................................... 7

7 Dorsal setae d3 shorter than distance between d3 and e3............................................................ L . mirabebensis Andre

- Dorsal setae d3 longer than distance between d3 and e3 ................................................................................................ 8

8 Palpgenu without setae; dorsal setae h2 <twice length of seta h1 ...................... L. annae Meyer & Ueckermann, 1997

- Palpgenu with 1 seta; dorsal setae h2> twice the length of seta h1 ................ L. niknami Bagheri & Haddad , sp. nov.