Platyacarus minor (Berla, 1959)

Mironov, Sergey V., Literak, Ivan, Sychra, Oldrich & Capek, Miroslav, 2017, Feather mites of the subfamily Proctophyllodinae (Acari: Proctophyllodidae) from passerines (Aves: Passeriformes) in Costa Rica, Zootaxa 4297 (1), pp. 1-105 : 21

Species group minor

Diagnosis. Both sexes. Setae f2 present, prodorsal shield entire, prodorsal and hysteronotal shield with lacunae. Male. Adanal suckers toothed, adanal shields represented by 2 pairs of sclerites, adanal apodemes absent, epimerites I Y-shaped, terminal lamellae short tongue-shaped, aedeagus not extending beyond adanal suckers, hysterosoma with small metapodosomal sclerites. Female. Primary spermaduct short, without monotonous proximal enlargement toward spermatheca; head of spermatheca small conical.

Remark. This group established herein includes two species: Platyacarus minor (Berla, 1959) and a new species described below.