Scolocenus Keifer, 1962

Xue, Xiao-Feng & Zhang, Zhi-Qiang, 2009, 2257, Zootaxa 2257, pp. 1-128 : 58

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5317790

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scientific name

Scolocenus Keifer, 1962
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Scolocenus Keifer, 1962

Type species. Scolocenus spiniferus Keifer, 1962c: 4–5 .

Diagnosis. Body fusiform; scapular setae (sc) ahead of rear shield margin; femur setae absent, empodium entire; dorsal opisthosoma with anterior annuli fused forming a broad plate.

This genus is monotypic ( Amrine et al. 2003).

Amrine, J. W. Jr., Stasny, T. A. & Flechtmann, C. H. W. (2003) Revised keys to world genera of Eriophyoidea (Acari: Prostigmata). Indira Publishing House, Michigan, U. S. A., 244 pp.

Keifer, H. H. (1962 c) Eriophyid studies B - 8. California Department of Agriculture, 20 pp.