Neparholaspis Evans, 1956

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

Genus Neparholaspis Evans, 1956

Dorsal shield bearing 29–30 pairs of spatulate, pilose or whip-like setae (more than 40 pairs in N. marginipilis ). Pre-sternal area with one or two pairs of elongated pre-sternal platelets. Sternal shield bearing three pairs of smooth setae. Metasternal shields fused with sternal and/or endopodal shields III, or free; normally with a pair of metasternal setae, except N. crispus without metasternal setae. Genital shield free, with one pair of setae. Peritrematal shields fused with endopodal, exopodal and ventrianal shields. Females with or without expulsory vesicles in ventrianal shield posterior to coxae IV. Peritrematal shields in some species with one or two pairs of conspicuous poroids, but usually all peritrematal poroids are small and inconspicuous. Ventrianal shield fused with peritrematal shields and bearing four or six pairs of smooth setae. Epistome subtriangular or with median projection, with smooth or serrated margins. Corniculus longer than movable digit of chelicera. Cheliceral seta wedge-shaped. Males similar to female, but with a holoventral shield; without expulsory vesicles.