Notophthiracarus quasiuluguruensis Niedbała et Starý, 2015

Niedbała, Wojciech, 2017, Ptyctimous mites (Acari, Oribatida) of Tanzania, Acarologia 57 (4), pp. 957-1072 : 1041

Notophthiracarus quasiuluguruensis Niedbała et Starý, 2015

( Fig. 57 A-H)

Diagnosis — Measurements of holotype: prodorsum: length 243, width 197, height 96; notogaster: length 465, width 343, height 313. Species of medium size; colour light brown; surface of body porose and with well-developed sculpture. Prodorsum with well-developed, joined sigillar fields and with deep sinus between rostral setae; lateral carinae absent, posterior furrows feeble; Sensilli long, with pedicel narrow proximally, slightly dilated in the middle and again narrow with small dilated head, obtuse distally, covered with minute spines; other setae needleform, rough (ss> ro> in> le), except vestigial exobothridial setae. Notogaster with setae needleform, short (c 1 /c 1 -d 1 =0.5), setae of row c remote from anterior border, setae c 2 more than setae c 1 and c 3; vestigial setae f 1 and f 2 not observable; 2 pairs of lyrifissures ia and im present. Ventral region; setae h of mentum shorter than distance between them; formula of genital setae: 5: 4; setae g 1-4 smaller than setae g 5-9; anoadanal plates with 5 pairs of unequal length of setae, ad 2> an 2> ad 3> an 1> ad 1, adanal setae ad 1 and ad 2 in unusual position, posteriorly of anal setae. Chaetome of legs of “incomplete type”; setae v’ of femora I absent; setae d of femora I slightly remote from distal end of the article .

Locality in Tanzania: The Uluguru Mts: Niedbała & Starý 2015d

Distribution — Afrotropical species known only from Tanzania, probably endemic.

Figures

FIGURE 57: Notophthiracarus quasiuluguruensis Niedbała et Starý, 2015 (holotype): A – prodorsum, dorsal view; B – prodorsum, lateral view; C – sensillus; D – opisthosoma, lateral view; E – mentum of subcapitulum; F – right genitoaggenital plate; G – right anoadanal plate; H – trochanter and femur of leg I.