Tumescoptes Keifer, 1939

Xue, Xiao-Feng & Zhang, Zhi-Qiang, 2009, 2257, Zootaxa 2257, pp. 1-128 : 51

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1175­5334

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5317726

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scientific name

Tumescoptes Keifer, 1939
status

 

Tumescoptes Keifer, 1939

Type species. Tumescoptes trachycarpi Keifer, 1939c: 337 , 344.

Diagnosis. Body fusiform; empodium divided; scapular setae ahead of rear shield margin; coxae I and coxae II each with 3 setae; first three annuli of dorsal opisthosoma separate and narrow, followed by about 10 fused annuli.

This genus consists of 4 species ( Amrine et al. 2003). Only one species has been recorded from Southeast Asia.

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. (1939 c) Eriophyid Studies V. Bulletin of the California Department of Agriculture, 28, 328 - 345.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Actinedida

Family

Eriophyidae