Scutopalus clavatus (Shiba)

Corpuz-Raros, Leonila A., Naredo, Jeremy C. B. & Garcia, Rufino C., 2019, Additional contributions to the knowledge of Philippine predatory mites mainly of the subfamilies Cunaxinae and Cunaxoidinae (Acari: Prostigmata: Cunaxidae), Acarologia 59 (1), pp. 134-151 : 148

Scutopalus clavatus (Shiba) ( Figures 11 – 13 )

Neocunaxoides clavatus Shiba, 1976: 117 [Type: Female, Pasoh Forest, N of Plot 1, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia (Malay Peninsula)].

Neocunaxoides clathratus (sic) — Smiley, 1992: 282.

Scutopalpus clavatus — Rocha, et al., 2013: 43; Skvarla, et al., 2014: 40.

Diagnosis — The clavate dorsal idiosomal setae (except for propodosomal ve and hysterosomal h1), readily distinguish this species from others of the genus Scutopalus .

Figures

Figure 11 Scutopalus clavatus (Shiba), female: a – palp; b – subcapitulum; c – chelicera. Scale bar 50 µm.

Figure 12 Scutopalus clavatus (Shiba), female idiosoma: a – dorsum; b – venter. Scale bar 100 µm.

Figure 13 Scutopalus clavatus (Shiba), female: a – leg I; b – leg II; c – leg III (trochanter to genu);