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Issue: Vol. 4088 No. 3: 10 Mar. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-03-09
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4088.3.3
Page range: 355–378
Abstract views: 62
PDF downloaded: 2

A new species of Tenuipalpus sensu stricto (Acari: Tenuipalpidae) from Brazil, with ontogeny and a key to the known species 

Programa de Pós Graduação em Biologia Animal, UNESP-Universidade Estadual Paulista, campus de São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo, Brazil
Depto. de Zoologia e Botânica, UNESP, Rua Cristovão Colombo, 2265, Jardim Nazareth, São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo, Brazil, 15054-000, CNPq-Brazil researcher.
Systematic Entomology Laboratory (SEL), Agricultural Research Service (ARS), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Beltsville Agricultural Research Centre (BARC), Maryland, 20705, USA.
Electron and Confocal Microscopy Unit (ECMU), ARS-USDA, BARC, Beltsville, Maryland, 20705, USA.
Acari flat mites Tenuipalpus spinosaurus crest body projections taxonomic systematic biodiversity Cerrado LT-SEM

Abstract

The Cerrado is the second largest Brazilian biome, and is considered to be a “hotspot” due the great concentration of endemic species and high rate of deforestation. Surveys of the mite fauna present in this biome have revealed a great number of new species. In this paper, we describe Tenuipalpus spinosaurus sp. nov. (Acari: Tenuipalpidae), a new species of Tenuipalpus sensu stricto, from adult females, deutonymphs, protonymphs, larvae and eggs, collected on Terminalia argentea (Combretaceae), from the Cerrado in Brazil. Females of this new species bear a prominent longitudinal crest on the opisthosoma. The ontogenetic changes in the idiosoma and leg chaetotaxy of all stages are presented. A key to the world species of Tenuipalpus sensu stricto is provided.

 

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