REDESCRIPTION OF WINTERSCHMIDTIA WICHMANNI (ACARI: ASTIGMATA: WINTERSCHMIDTIIDAE) FROM AUSTRIA
Journal: Acarina
Year: 2022

Phoretic deutonymphs of Winterschmidtia wichmanni (Türk and Türk, 1957) (Acari: Winterschmidtiidae) are redescribed based on specimens collected from Pyrrhidium sanguineum (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) in Austria. While phoretic deutonymphs of W. wichmanni are similar to those of W. nataliae (Zachvatkin, 1941), they diffr in the size of the idiosoma, the microsculpture of the dorsal idiosoma, the length of solenidia ω1 and ω2 on tarsus I, the size of the attachment organ and the absence of scleroti