Alismobates
Creators: name: Pfingstl, Tobias
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Fortuyniidae
Alismobates

description: Key to adults of species of Alismobates and Fortuynia (subspecies not included)
1 van der Hammen’s organ with ventral canal on epimeron I running ventrad of pedotectum I; 4 pairs of genital setae........ 2
- van der Hammen’s organ without ventral canal on epimeron I running ventrad of pedotectum I; 5 pairs of genital setae..... 5
2 Epimeral setation 3-1-2-1; longitudinal granular areas laterally on notogaster; faint reticulate pattern on median area of noto- gaster................................................................. Alismobates pseudoreticulatus sp. nov.
- Epimeral setation 3-1-2-2; notogastral surface structure different................................................. 3
3 Reticulate surface pattern on notogaster............................................... A. reticulatus Luxton, 1992
- Granular/punctuate surface pattern of notogaster............................................................. 4
4 Inhomogeneous notogastral granulation, lenticulus laterally framed by larger granulated areas.............................................................................................. A. inexpectatus Pfingstl & Schuster 2012
- Homogeneous notogastral granulation................................................. A. rotundus Luxton, 1992
5 Prodorsal channel (ce) of van der Hammen’s organ present.....................................................6
- Prodorsal channel (ce) of van der Hammen’s organ absent..................................................... 11
6 Fifteen pairs of notogastral setae; all notogastral setae very long.......................... .. Fortuynia longiseta sp. nov.
- Fourteen pairs of notogastral setae........................................................................ 7
7 Vestige of notogastral seta c3 present.......................................................................8
- Vestige of notogastral seta c3 absent....................................................................... 14
8 Notogastral setae p1-3 longer than seta dm; setae la, lm shaped leaf-like distally in males and simple in females.................................................................................... F. atlantica Krisper & Schuster, 2008
- Notogastral setae p1-3 shorter than seta dm, no obvious sexual dimorphism......................................... 9
9 No remarkable difference in length of notogastral setae, all long............................ .. F. m a c u la t a Luxton, 1986
- Anterior notogastral setae more than twice as long as posterior notogastral setae................................... 10
10 Notogastral setae dm and lm short; sensilla normal length for the genus....................... F. marina Hammen, 1960
- Notogastral setae dm and lm long; sensilla very short................... F. smiti Ermilov, Tolstikov, Mary & Schatz 2013
11 Epimeral setation 3-1-3-2.............................................................................. 12
- Epimeral setation 3-1-3-3..............................................................................13
12 One pair of aggenital setae......................................................... F. elamellata Luxton, 1967
- Aggenital setae absent.................................................. F. inhambanensis Marshall & Pugh 2002
13 Sensilla densely barbed.................... F. arabica Bayartogtokh, Chatterjee & Chan 2009 in Bayartogtokh et al. 2009
- Sensilla smooth........................ F. taiwanica Bayartogtokh, Chatterjee & Chan 2009 in Bayartogtokh et al. 2009
14 Aggenital setae absent................................................................ F. maledivensis sp. nov.
- One pair of aggenital setae present....................................................................... 15
15 Prodorsal channel (ce) short, not reaching anterior half of prodorsum.......................... F. sinensis Luxton, 1992
- Prodorsal channel (ce) long, reaching anterior half of prodorsum............................................... 16
16 Notogastral setae h1-3 and p1-3 very short.......................................... F. rotunda Marshall & Pugh, 2002
- Notogastral setae h1-3 and p1-3 long..................................................... F. yunkeri Hammen, 1963
description: Published as part of Pfingstl, Tobias, 2015, The intertidal Fortuyniidae (Acari: Oribatida): new species, morphological diversity, ecology and biogeography, pp. 351-382 in Zootaxa 3957 (4) on pages 380-381, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3957.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/239589