Steneotarsonemus furcatus De Leon, 1956

Ganguly, Moumi, Mondal, Priyankar & Karmakar, Krishna, 2022, Complementary description of three species of Steneotarsonemus (Acari: Tarsonemidae) from rice agroecosystems of Eastern India with notes on their taxonomic status, spatial distribution, intraspecific variation and species composition, Zootaxa 5138 (5), pp. 501-532 : 509

Steneotarsonemus furcatus De Leon, 1956

Diagnosis: Adult female: Seta v1 positioned well anteriad stigmatal openings; atrium globular, often visible as crescent shaped when oriented laterally; dorsal seta smooth and subequal in length (9–12) except c2 (16–18); distance between bases setae sc2 more than its length; sejugal apodeme reduced to crescent shaped lateral remnants; prosternal apodeme not extended beyond level of apodemes 2; poststernal apodeme short, weakly fused with apodemes 4; seta v'Ti smooth about one third length of seta tc''. Adult male: dorsal setae coarse except for v1 and c2; seta sc1 nearly twice the length sc2; setae c2 not reaching bases of c1; setae c1, d and f subequal in length; prosternal apodeme conspicuous only up to proximal ends of apodemes 4; sejugal apodeme diffused medially; poststernal apodeme weakly connected with apodemes 3 and 4 anteriorly; seta d of tibia I, l' of genu II and d of tibia II sparsely barbed; on femorogenu IV without flange; seta v'F bifurcated and dentate along the inner groove.