Parasoldanellonyx Viets 1929

Main Author: Bartsch, Ilse
Format: info publication-taxonomictreatment Journal
Terbitan: , 2015
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Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5696504
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  • Parasoldanellonyx Viets, 1929 Type species. Soldanellonyx parviscutatus Walter, 1917. Adults. In female genital and anal plate separated. GP with three to ten pairs of slender pgs and, posterolateral to GO, three to nine pairs of external gac. Each genital sclerite with two to three (to six) sgs (Bartsch 2006 c: fig 5- 16 b). Ovipositor short, basally with pair of spiniform genital spines, apically with five pairs of similar-sized spines, two pairs in anterior and three pairs in posterior position (Viets 1933 a: fig. 10). In males GP and AP fused. GA with about 70–80 slender pgs. GO smaller and in a more ventral position than in female; three to five pairs of gac arranged as in female (Bartsch 2006 c: fig 5-16 e). Each genital sclerite with two or three short sgs. In both sexes AE with pair of epimeral pores, shape of pores same as that of genital acetabula. Juveniles. With a larval and two nymphal stages. In nymphs GP and AP separated. GP of deutonymph with two pairs of gac and pgs and one pair of sgs. Protonymph with single pair of gac; pgs and sgs lacking. Nymphs and larva with epimeral pores, their shape same as those of adults. Remarks. Records of the three Parasoldanellonyx species at present known are from the Palaearctic and Nearctic zone (Bartsch 2009 a). They live in freshwater, in groundwater-fed ponds and moist areas.
  • Published as part of Bartsch, Ilse, 2015, The genital area of Halacaridae (Acari), life stages and development of morphological characters and implication on the classification, pp. 201-259 in Zootaxa 3919 (2) on pages 224-225, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3919.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/245246