Holaspulus Berlese, 1904

Quintero-Gutiérrez, Edwin Javier & Halliday, Bruce, 2021, Review of the mite family Parholaspididae Evans, 1956 (Acari: Mesostigmata), Zootaxa 5005 (4), pp. 401-459 : 409-410

Genus Holaspulus Berlese, 1904

Dorsal shield bearing 30 pairs of moderately long and modified setae (distally expanded, spatulate to trifurcate);

setae smooth in H. aculeatus . Pre-sternal area with one pair of elongated pre-sternal platelets. Sternal shield with three pairs of smooth or wedge-shaped setae. Metasternal shields free (fused to endopodal shields in H. confusus ) and bearing the metasternal setae st4. Peritrematal shields fused to podal and genitiventrianal shields, bearing a pair of genital setae st5 and four pairs of pre-anal setae; shield sometimes with a pair of expulsory vesicles situated posteriorly to the coxa IV. Epistome with a short median projection and one pair of lateral projection, serrated margins. Corniculus usually shorter than movable digit of chelicera, sometimes longer. Chelicera chelate-dentate, fixed digit with 4–7 teeth, movable digit with two teeth. Cheliceral seta smooth. Males similar to female, except with holoventral shield bearing 10 pairs of setae (st1–5 and five pairs of pre-anal setae)