Diptilomiopidae Keifer 1944
Creators: name: Huang, Kun-Wei
name: Wang, Chin-Fah
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Prostigmata
Diptilomiopidae

description: Key to species of Diptilomiopidae Keifer, 1944 from Yangmingshan
1 Empodium divided, usually deeply ................................................................................................. Diptilomiopinae ...2 - Empodium entire....................................................................................................................... Rhyncaphytoptinae ...11
2 Scapular setae absent .................................................................................................................................................... 3
- Scapular setae present .................................................................................................................................................. 7
3 Genua absent from both legs; tibial setae absent .......................................................................................................... 4
- Legs with usual six segments; tibial setae present .............................................. Asetadiptacus phaeostictaus sp. nov.
4 Prodorsal shield design with 12 cells along anterolateral shield margin ...................................................................... 5
- Prodorsal shield design with 10 cells along anterolateral shield margin ........................ Diptilomiopus decem sp. nov.
5 Empodium 4-rayed .................................................................................................... Diptilomiopus candidus sp. nov.
- Empodium not as above............................................................................................................................................... 6
6 Empodium 6-rayed ........................................................................... Diptilomiopus cumminis Chakrabarti et al., 1992
- Empodium 5-rayed ........................................................................................... Diptilomiopus aralioidus Huang, 2006
7 Dorsal opisthosoma with 3 ridges................................................................................................................................ 8
- Dorsal opisthosoma with a weak central ridge ............................................................................................................. 9
8 Prodorsal shield design with admedian lines sub-parallel, connected at base ............ Apodiptacus coniunctus sp. nov.
- Prodorsal shield design with admedian lines sinuous, not connected at base ........ Apodiptacus styracus Huang, 2005
9 Prodorsal shield design smooth .................................................................................................................................. 10
- Prodorsal shield design with ridge .................................................................................. Diptacus acuminatus sp. nov.
10 Empodium 5-rayed ................................................................................................................. Diptacus glaber sp. nov.
- Empodium 7-rayed ..................................................................................................... Diptacus tristylaus Huang, 2001
11 Femoral setae absent on both pairs of legs .......................................................................... Asetacus obscurus sp. nov.
- Femoral setae absent only from legs I .................................................................. Catarhinus palmifolies Huang, 2001
description: Published as part of Huang, Kun-Wei & Wang, Chin-Fah, 2009, Eriophyoid mites (Acari: Eriophyoidea) of Taiwan: thirty-seven species from Yangmingshan, including one new genus and twenty-two new species, pp. 1-50 in Zootaxa 1986 on pages 35-36, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.185424