TENERIFFIIDAE Thor, 1911

Khanjani, M., Hoseini, M. A. & Asali Fayaz, B., 2014, Austroteneriffia Khorramabadiensis N. Sp. (Acari: Teneriffiidae): A New Species From Southwestern Iran, With A Description Of The Male, Acarologia 54 (1), pp. 69-79 : 70

Family TENERIFFIIDAE Thor, 1911 Genus Austroteneriffia Womersley, 1935

Type species: Austroteneriffia hirsti Womersley, 1935 .

Genus diagnosis — Color orange to red in life, body oval; aggenital chaetotaxy holotrichous; claws of legs I-II large, strongly pectinate; prodorsal shield with four pairs of setae (vi, ve, sci, sce), opisthosoma with seven pairs of setae (c1, c2, d1, e1, f1, h1, h2), of which seta c2 is the longest; palp genu with or without oncophysis; gnathosoma with four pairs of setae: three pairs of adoral setae (or1-3), and one pair of subcapitular setae (m) [Based on Womersley (1935) and Judson (1995)].