Mortelmansia duboisi Fain, 1964

Bochkov, Andre V., Zabludovskaya, Svetlana & Oconnor, Barry M., 2008, Phylogeny and systematics of the endoparasitic astigmatid mites (Acari: Sarcoptiformes) of mammals: families Gastronyssidae, Lemurnyssidae, and Pneumocoptidae, Zootaxa 1951 (1), pp. 1-152 : 141-142

3. Mortelmansia duboisi Fain, 1964

( Figs. 78 , 79 )

Mortelmansia duboisi Fain 1964c: 453 , fig. 1.

Redescription. FEMALE (holotype). Body, including gnathosoma, 335 long (310 in paratype), 95 wide (93). Body length/width ratio 3.3–3.5:1. Idiosomal shields, excluding prescapular shield, covered by non-striate pattern as depicted in Fig. 78A . Prescapular shield length about 35; postscapular shield length about 70; metapodosomal shields length about 20, distance between metapodosomal shields 35–40; opisthonotal shield length about 80; opisthogastric shield length about 35. Alveoli of setae e1 and h1 absent. Inseminatory canal about 18 long. Sternum 22 long (20). Apodemes II about 30 long. Distance between distal ends of apodemes II about 8. Legs III and IV subequal, about 75 long (excluding pretarsi). Setal lengths: se 25 (27), cp 10 (11), h2 17 (18), 1a 22 (19), 3a 17 (18), 4a microsetae, vF I 8 (7), vF II 15 (13), cG I 30 (27), cG II 5 (4), mG I–II about 17, gT I–II about 5, d I–IV about 30, solenidia ω 1 I 8 (12), ω 1 II 10 (13), ϕI–II about 7, ϕIII–IV about 2.

MALE. Unknown.

Type material examined. Female holotype and female paratype ( IRSNB) from Callithrix jacchus (L.) ( Callitrichidae ), originating in South America and died in the Antwerp Zoo ( Belgium), 2 February 1963, mites coll. A. Fain.

Type deposition. Holotype is deposited in IRSNB.

Host range and distribution. This species is known only from the type series collected from Callithrix jacchus originating from South America (Fain 1959) .

Figures

FIGURE 78. Mortelmansia duboisi Fain, 1964, females. A, dorsal view; B, ventral view; C, idiosoma in dorsal view; D, same in ventral view. Scale bars: 100 µm (A, B), 50 µm (C, D).

FIGURE 79. Mortelmansia duboisi Fain, 1964, female legs. A, tarsus I in dorsal view; B, leg I in ventral view; C, tarsus II in dorsal view; D, leg II in ventral view; E, tarsus III in dorsal view; F, leg III in ventral view; G, tarsus IV in dorsal view; H, leg IV in ventral view.