Proterothrix modestasimilis Constantinescu, 2024

ConstantinescuK, Ioana Cristina, ChișameraK, Gabriel Bogdan, MotocK, Rozalia & AdamK, Costică, 2024, Three new feather mite species of the genusProterothrix Gaud, 1968 (Analgoidea: Proctophyllodidae: Pterodectinae) from birds of paradise (Passeriformes: Paradisaeidae), Acarologia 1968 (2), pp. 661-682 : 668

Proterothrix modestasimilis Constantinescu n. sp.

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Figures

Figure 5 Figure 5.Proterothrix modestasimilis n. sp., male. A – dorsal view, B – ventral view.

Figure 6 Figure 6.Proterothrix modestasimilis n. sp., male. A – D details of male legs, dorsal view, A – leg I, B – leg II, C – leg III, D – leg IV, E – opisthosoma of male, ventral view.

Figure 7 Figure 7. Proterothrix modestasimilis n. sp., female. A – dorsal view, B – ventral view.

Figure 8 Figure 8. Proterothrix modestasimilis n. sp., female. A – D details of female legs, dorsal view, A – leg I, B – leg II, C – leg III, D – leg IV, E – spermatheca and spermaducts of female. Abbreviations: hs – head of spermatheca, pd – primary spermaduct, sd – secondary spermaduct.