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

作者：Castro Elizeu B^*; Feres Reinaldo J F; Ochoa Ronald; Bauchan Gary R

来源：Zootaxa, 2016, 4088(3): 355-378.

DOI：10.11646/zootaxa.4088.3.3

• flat mites
• Tenuipalpus spinosaurus
• crest
• body projections
• taxonomic
• systematic
• biodiversity
• Cerrado
• LT-SEM

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.

• 出版日期2016-3-10