Phthiracarus peristomaticus Willmann, 1948

Niedbała, Wojciech, 2015, Supplement to the knowledge of ptyctimous mites (Acari, Oribatida) from Palaearctic Region, Zootaxa 4057 (3), pp. 301-339 : 307-308

Phthiracarus peristomaticus Willmann, 1948

( Figs 4A–E )

Measurements of specimen from Slovakia Latorica Protected Landscape Area: length 237, width 177, height 101; setae: ss 45, in 73, le 38, ro 71, ex 30; notogaster: length 444, width 338, height 348, setae: c 1 131, h 1 126, ps 1 121.

Diagnostic characters. Sensilli fusiform, median crista of prodorsum well developed as in P. globosus , rostral setae situated near each other, dorsal setae of notogaster longer than lateral, c 1= c 1- d 1, vestigial setae f 1 slightly posterior of setae h 1, setae h of mentum as long as distance between them, adanal setae well developed.

FIGURE 3A–I. Phthiracarus incertus Niedbała, 1983 (specimen from Podkarpacie, Poland; measurements: prodorsum: length 252, width 202, height 106; notogaster: length 525, width 364, height 343). A, prodorsum, dorsal view; B, prodorsum, lateral view; C, opisthosoma, lateral view; D, variable positions of vestigial setae f 1; E, mentum of subcapitulum; F, right genitoaggenital plate; G, right anoadanal plate; H, trochanter and femur I; I, genu and tibia IV.

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FIGURE 4 A – E. Phthiracarus peristomaticus Willmann, 1948 (specimen from Slovakia; measurements: length 237, width 177, height 101; notogaster: length 444, width 338, height 348). A, prodorsum, dorsal view; B, prodorsum lateral view, C, opisthosoma, lateral view, D, mentum of subcapitulum, E, trochanter and femur I.