Tenuipalpus Donnadieu, 1876

Castro, Elizeu B., Feres, Reinaldo J. F., Ochoa, Ronald & Bauchan, Gary R., 2016, A new species of Tenuipalpus sensu stricto (Acari: Tenuipalpidae) from Brazil, with ontogeny and a key to the known species, Zootaxa 4088 (3), pp. 355-378 : 356

Genus Tenuipalpus Donnadieu, 1876

Type species: Tenuipalpus palmatus Donnadieu, 1876 (= Tenuipalpus caudatus ( Dugès, 1834))

Diagnosis. Female: Body shape with prodorsum wider than opisthosoma or elongate-ovate; prodorsum with three pairs of setae (v2, sc1, sc2, except v2 absent in T. elegans (Collyer)) ; dorsal opisthosoma with eight to ten pairs of setae (c3, d3, e3, f3, h1, h2 present; c2, d2, e2 absent; c1, d1, e1, f2 present or absent (d1, e1 rarely absent); setae h2 elongate, flagellate. Palp one to three segmented. Venter with one to two pairs of setae 3a (3a2 present or absent) and one to four pairs of setae 4a (4a2, 4a3, 4a4 present or absent); ventral and genital plates not developed, membranous genital flap present; commonly two pairs of pseudanal setae ps1 – 2 present (setae ps3 rarely present). Male: Opisthosoma distinctly narrower than that of female; legs and dorsal setae usually similar to those of female; pseudanal setae ps1 modified as accessory genital stylet.