Paraplonobia Wainstein, 1960

Kamran, Muhammad, Mirza, Jawwad Hassan & Alatawi, Fahad Jaber, 2016, The genus Paraplonobia Wainstein and Neopetrobia Wainstein (Acari, Trombidiformes, Tetranychidae) from Saudi Arabia: new species, new records and key to the world species of Paraplonobia, ZooKeys 598, pp. 27-55 : 28

Taxon classification Animalia Prostigmata Tetranychidae

Genus Paraplonobia Wainstein, 1960

Aplonobia (Paraplonobia) Wainstein, 1960: 140.

Paraplonobia : Tuttle and Baker 1968: 48, Meyer 1974: 119, Chaudhri et al. 1974: 28, Gutierrez 1985: 75, Bolland et al. 1998: 7.

Type species.

Aplonobia (Paraplonobia) echinopsili Wainstein, 1960 by original designation.

Diagnosis.

Based on Baker and Tuttle 1968, Gutierrez 1955, Meyer 1974, Meyer 1987, Bolland et al. 1998.

Body oval; prodorsum without lobes and with three pairs of setae; dorsal opisthosomal setae ten pairs. Dorsal setae not set on prominent tubercles; setae f1 normal in position, coxal setal formula variable, most species with 2 –2–1– 1 except one species of the subgenus Brachynychus having 4 –3–2– 2 setae on coxae I–IV respectively; anal setae three pairs; peritremes simple/anastomosing; tarsus I with two sets of duplex setae, present close to distal end of tarsus; claws and empodium pad-like each with tenant hairs (Fig. 5A).