Aculus Keifer, 1959

Xue, Xiao-Feng & Zhang, Zhi-Qiang, 2009, 2257, Zootaxa 2257, pp. 1-128 : 81

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Aculus Keifer, 1959
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Aculus Keifer, 1959

Type species. Phyllocoptes ligustri Keifer, 1938a: 190–191 , 204.

Diagnosis. Body fusiform; scapular setae (sc) and tubercles on rear shield margin, directed posteriorly, frontal lobe broad; coxae I and coxae II each with 3 setae; legs with usual segmentation and setae, empodium less than 7-rayed; opisthosomal annuli differential dorsoventrally.

This genus consists of 248 species ( Amrine et al. 2003). Only 5 species have 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. (1938 a) Eriophyid Studies. Bulletin of the California Department of Agriculture, 27, 181 - 206.

Keifer, H. H. (1959) Eriophyid Studies XXVII. Occasional Papers 1. California Department of Agriculture, 18 pp.