Stigmaeus (Female)

Khanjani, M., Amini, F. & Khanjani, M., 2015, A new species of the genus Stigmaeus koch (Acari: Stigmaeidae) from Kurdistan province, Iran and description of male of Prostigmaeus khanjanii Bagheri and Ghorbani, Acarologia 55 (1), pp. 49-60 : 57

Key to the Iranian species of genus Stigmaeus (Female)

1. Median propodosomal shield absent........... 2

— Median propodosomal shield present......... 3

2. Genua II-III with 5-3 setae............. S. saboorii

— Genua II-III with 4-4 setae........ S. kermaniensis

3. Hysterosoma without median shield........... 4

— Hysterosoma with median shield.............. 7

4. Genua II-IV with 2-0-1 setae................... 5

— Genua III-IV with 5-3-3 seate........ S. elongatus