Pilobatella brevipila, Mahunka, 2011

Mahunka, S., 2011, New And Little Known Oribatid Mites From Madagascar (Acari: Oribatida) Ii., Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 57 (1), pp. 1-21 : 13-15

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.5731982
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6913375
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/784D87A5-3705-FFAD-E252-EE7FFB31FDBB
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Pilobatella brevipila
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Pilobatella brevipila View in CoL sp. n.

( Figs 24–27 View Figs 24–27 )

Diagnosis: Body surface smooth. Rostral apex widely rounded. Lamellae short, converging, continuing laterally in a short, weakly developed anterolateral crest. Lamellar cusps bearing very short lamellar setae, interlamellar setae also very short. Sensillus long, well barbed. Notogaster with ten pairs of very short setae and four pairs of small, round sacculi. All legs monodactylous.

Material examined: Holotype: Madagascar, Vohimana reserve , primary forest. 17. 04. 2008. Leg. Cs. CSUZDI (Afr-996). Holotype (1815-HO-10) deposited in the HNHM.

Measurements: Length of body: 330 µm, width of body: 198 µm.

Prodorsum: Wide, lamellar setae arising laterally, far from each other. All prodorsal setae very short, lamellar and interlamellar setae equal in length. Sensillus long, directed backwards, distinctly and irregularly barbed ( Fig. 27 View Figs 24–27 ).

Notogaster: Anterior margin of notogaster distinct, convex. All notogastral setae very short and fine. Sacculi also small, their inner sack rounded.

Lateral part of podosoma: Tutorium well-developed, with curved anterior end, cusp absent.

Ventral parts: Apodemes and epimeral borders typical for the genus, ap. sej. and ap. 3 connected medially. All epimeral setae short and simple. Genito-anal setal formula: 6–1–2–3. Median pair of genital setae located much nearer to each other than the anterior and posterior one, their position irregular.

Remarks: The specimen collected in Madagascar on the basis of main characters are very near to the type species of the genus Pilobatella BALOGH and MAHUNKA, 1969. However, the dorsal and ventral surface are smooth in the new species (distinctly punctuate in P. punctulata BALOGH et MAHUNKA, 1969 ), its lamellae are more strongly converging than in punctulata , and all setae arising on prodorsum and notogaster much shorter than in punctulata .

Etymology: The name refers to the conspicuously short lamellar and interlamellar setae.