Cosmochthonius Berlese, 1910
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Genus Cosmochthonius Berlese, 1910 View in CoL
Diagnosis — Oribatid mites, archoribatids, arthronotics, and holoids sensu Balogh and Mahunka (1979); belonging to Enarthronota ( Grandjean, 1947, 1953: 428, 1969: 141). Cosmochthoniids with the original Hypochthonius lanatus type ( Michael, 1885: 396), with the fenestrated rostral tectum ( Grandjean, 1962; Norton et al., 1983) and without prodorsal spots or eyes ( Grandjean, 1953); notogaster orthotrichous with four completely divided segments, with setae in the d- series linked to the first type- E scissure, pectiniform, nonfoliate setae from the e and f -series, without pectinations in some species ( Sarkar, 1983; Kahwash et al., 1989), of the erectile-type, originating in the intercalary sclerites of the type- S scissures ( Grandjean, 1947, 224; Van der Hammen, 1959: key p. 12); all legs polydactyl, heterodactylous with tarsal formula 2-3-3-3 ( Van der Hammen, 1959; Gordeeva, 1980; Lee, 1982), exceptionally homobidactylous ( Chakrabarti et al., 1972).
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