Dechela Keifer, 1965

Xue, Xiao-Feng & Zhang, Zhi-Qiang, 2009, 2257, Zootaxa 2257, pp. 1-128 : 22

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1175­5334

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5317380

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scientific name

Dechela Keifer, 1965
status

 

Dechela Keifer, 1965

Type species. Dechela epelis Keifer, 1965a: 3–4 .

Diagnosis. Body fusiform; female genitalia appressed to coxae; tarsal I solenidion located below empodium; scapular tubercles and setae absent.

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. (1965 a) Eriophyid studies B - 13. California Department of Agriculture, 20 pp.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Actinedida

Family

Eriophyidae