Pachygnathus Dugès, 1834

Uusitalo, Matti, Ueckermann, Edward A. & Theron, Pieter D., 2020, A review of the family Alycidae (Acari, Acariformes) from South Africa, Zootaxa 4858 (3), pp. 301-340 : 305

Pachygnathus Dugès, 1834

Type species: “Pachygnathe velu” Dugès , 1834 (= Pachygnathus villosus Dugès [in: Oken], 1836) from France; by monotypy .

Differential diagnosis. The genus can be segregated from the other genera of the family by the beak-like chelicera ( Fig. 18 ; Uusitalo 2010: fig. 3), small, fork-like rutella and less than six sparsely barbed eupathids on the palpi ( Fig. 19 ; Uusitalo 2010: fig. 63).

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FIGURES 16−22. Pachygnathus nasutus sp. nov. 16—Prodorsum, sclerotized crista, filamentous sensilla ve and sci ciliated, setae exp small; 17—Swollen naso; 18—Beak-like chelicerae, typical to genus; 19—Palp tarsus with 4 pseudacanthoid eupathids; 20—Subcapitulum, 1 pair of adoral setae; 21—Genital valve of female, 13 genital setae, 2 eugenital setae; 22—Tarsus I (2 solenidia), famulus I (arrow), Tibia I (2 solenidia).