A new species of Tenuipalpus sensu stricto (Acari: Tenuipalpidae) from Brazil, with ontogeny and a key to the known species
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2016-03-10
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Castro, Elizeu B. [UNESP]
Feres, Reinaldo J.F. [UNESP]
Ochoa, Ronald
Bauchan, Gary R.
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The Cerrado is the second largest Brazilian biome, and is considered to be a hotspot due the great concentration of endemic species and high rate of deforestation. Surveys of the mite fauna present in this biome have revealed a great number of new species. In this paper, we describe Tenuipalpus spinosaurus sp. nov. (Acari: Tenuipalpidae), a new species of Tenuipalpus sensu stricto, from adult females, deutonymphs, protonymphs, larvae and eggs, collected on Terminalia argentea (Combretaceae), from the Cerrado in Brazil. Females of this new species bear a prominent longitudinal crest on the opisthosoma. The ontogenetic changes in the idiosoma and leg chaetotaxy of all stages are presented. A key to the world species of Tenuipalpus sensu stricto is provided.
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Biodiversity, Body projections, Cerrado, Crest, Flat mites, LT-SEM, Systematic, Taxonomic, Tenuipalpus spinosaurus
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Zootaxa, v. 4088, n. 3, p. 355-378, 2016.