Chelonuropoda banari Kontschán & Starý 2012, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Kontschán, Jenő
name: Starý, Josef
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Mesostigmata
Trachyuropodidae
Chelonuropoda
Chelonuropoda banari

description: Chelonuropoda banari sp. nov.   
(Figures 1–2)  
 Material examined   
 Holotype. Female. MAG007: Madagascar, CE, Ranomafana National Park, 16–18 November 2010, 1079 m above sea level, GPS 21 ◦ 14 ′ 51 ′′ S, 47 ◦ 24 ′ 13 ′′ E, litter sifting, leg. P. Baňař.   
 Paratype. Male. Locality and date same as holotype.   
Holotype is deposited in NHMG, paratype in ISB.  
 Description   
 Female. Length of idiosoma 1265 µm, width 960 µm (n = 1). Shape oval, posterior margin rounded.   
 Dorsal side (Figure 1A). Dorsal and marginal shields fused close to the anterior margin. Anterior marginal shield wide, bearing short, smooth, needle-like setae (c.20–25 µm). All dorsal setae smooth and needle-like (c.40–60 µm), placed in small, rounded depressions (Figure 1B). Two strongly sclerotized C-shaped rings present on posterolateral areas of dorsal shield and one pair of small, strongly sclerotized pore-like structures situated on anterolateral area of dorsal shield.   
 Ventral side (Figure 1C). Sternal and ventral shields without ornamentation, all sternal setae smooth and needle-like (c.23–30 µm). Ventral setae smooth, needle-like (c. 30–35 µm) and placed in small rounded depressions. Metapodal region each with deep transversal furrow bordered with two rows of phylliform setae (c. 70–80 µm). Adanal and postanal setae similar in shape and length to ventral setae. Stigmata situated between coxae II and III. Peritremes R-shaped (Figure 1D). Genital shield wide, linguliform, with small, oval pits on its surface and without anterior process. Tritosternum with wide, quadrangular basis; laciniae with three, marginally pilose branches, central one longer than other two (Figure 2A).   
Legs. All segments with simple and smooth setae and a pair of claws at the tip of the ambulacral prolongation.  
 Gnathosoma (Figure 2B). Corniculi horn-like, laciniae with several smooth and long branches. Hypostomal setae h1 smooth (c.38–40 µm), h2 (c.45–50 µm) and h4 (c.19–23 µm) apically, h3 marginally serrate (c.115–120 µm). Palp trochanter with one short smooth seta and one long, marginally serrate seta. Epistome triangular and apically pilose (Figure 2C), chelicerae with one tooth on movable digit and four teeth on the fixed digit, internal sclerotized node absent, one dorsal seta present (Figure 2D).   
 Male. Length of idiosoma 1120 µm, width 850 µm (n = 1). Shape oval, posterior margin rounded. Dorsal side. Ornamentation and chaetotaxy as in female.   
 Ventral side. Ornamentation and chaetotaxy of ventral shield as in female. Sternal shield without sculptural pattern, the positions of sternal setae as in Figure 2E. All sternal setae smooth and needle-like (c.15–20 µm). Genital shield rounded and placed between coxae III. Gnathosoma and other appendages same as in female.   
Nymph and larva are unknown.  
 Etymology   
We dedicate our new species to Dr Petr Baňař (Brno, Czech Republic), who collected this species in Madagascar.
description: Published as part of Kontschán, Jenő & Starý, Josef, 2012, Notes on the genus Chelonuropoda Sellnick, 1954 with description of three new species (Acari: Uropodina: Oplitidae), pp. 741-756 in Journal of Natural History 46 (11 - 12) on pages 744-745, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2011.651650, http://zenodo.org/record/5199641