Qunaxella
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Ordo: Trombidiformes
Familia: Cunaxidae
Name
Qunaxella Den Heyer & Castro, 2009 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
Historical review
Den Heyer and Castro (2009)[1] erected Qunaxella for a single species, Qunaxella triasetosa.
Diagnosis
Gnathosoma. Pedipalps 3-segmented. Femurogenu complimented with 5 sts. Tibiotarsi at least twice as long as wide and complemented with 5 sts, 1 asl. Subcapitulum with 6 pairs of setae (hg1–4 and 2 pairs of adoral setae).
Idiosoma, dorsal. Proterosoma with weakly defined shield present which is complemented with 2 pairs of setae (lps and mps) and 2 pairs of setose sensillae (at and pt). Dorsal hysterosoma lacks a plate. Setae c1–h1, c2, and h2 present. Setae c1–f1 finely setose and c2, h1, and h2 smooth. Setae f2 absent. Integument not covered in shields or plates striated.
Idiosoma, ventral. Coxae weakly sclerotized and ill-defined. Coxae I–II fused. Coxae III–IV fused. Genital plates each bear 4 setae (g1–4); 2 pairs of genital papillae visible underneath the plates. Integument not covered in shields or plates striated. Legs. Basifemora I–IV setal formula 3-4-2-0 sts. Telofemora I–IV setal formula 4-4-3-3. Tibiae III with 1 bsl, 5 sts. Tibiae IV with 5 sts (4 short, 1 long).
Taxon Treatment
- Skvarla, M; Fisher, J; Dowling, A; 2014: A review of Cunaxidae (Acariformes, Trombidiformes): Histories and diagnoses of subfamilies and genera, keys to world species, and some new locality records ZooKeys, 418: 1-103. doi
Other References
- ↑ Den Heyer J, Castro T (2009) Four new cunaxoidine genera (Acari: Prostigmata: Cunaxidae) and the description of two new Neotropical species. Zootaxa 2140: 1–15.
