Taicolopodacus, Huang, Kun-Wei & Wang, Chin-Fah, 2009

Huang, Kun-Wei & Wang, Chin-Fah, 2009, Eriophyoid mites (Acari: Eriophyoidea) of Taiwan: thirty-seven species from Yangmingshan, including one new genus and twenty-two new species, Zootaxa 1986, pp. 1-50 : 4

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.185424

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6215297

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scientific name

Taicolopodacus
status

gen. nov.

Taicolopodacus n. gen.

Type species: Taicolopodacus primus sp. nov.

Body fusiform, shield lobe present, scapular tubercles and setae set ahead of rear shield margin; leg segments tibiae fused with tarsi, coxae I separate, coxae with 3 pair of tubercles and setae, genual seta of leg II missing; empodium simple; opisthosoma differentiated into broader dorsal annuli and narrower ventral annuli, first dorsal annul broad, dorsum with median and subdorsal ridges, 2nd ventral tubercles and setae (e) absent; coverflap with longitudinal ridges.

Remarks: This new genus has the opisthosomal dorsum with median and subdorsal ridges found in no other Colopodacini . This new genus is close to Paracolopodacus Kuang & Huang, 1994 by the opisthosomal seta e absent and genu II seta absent. However, it differs from Paracolopodacus by the following characters: opisthosomal dorsum with median and subdorsal ridges, first dorsal annulus broad, coxae I separate, and coverflap with longitudinal ridges. This new genus superficially resembles the tribe Phyllocoptini .

Etymology: Tai, meaning “ Taiwan ”.The genus name is masculine, and refers to this new genus being close to Paracolopodacus and its first record in Taiwan.

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