Stigmaeus Koch 1836
Creators: name: Doğan, Sibel
name: Doğan, Salih
name: Erman, Orhan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Prostigmata
Stigmaeidae
Stigmaeus

description: Key to the species of Stigmaeus from Harşit Valley and Örümcek Forests (Turkey)
1. Central shield present.................................................................................. 2
- Central shield absent.............................................................. S. pseudoparmatus sp. nov.
2. Central shield with two or three pairs of setae............................................................... 3
- Central shield without setae..................................................... S. devlethanensis Akyol & Koç
3. Central shield with three pairs of setae..................................................................... 4
- Central shield with two pairs of setae...................................................................... 6
4. Setae ag 1 and other aggenital setae on the same shield......................................................... 5
- Setae ag 1 situated on different shields................................................... S. longipilis (Canestrini)
5. Dorsal body setae similar.............................................................. S. livschitzi Kuznetsov
- Dorsal body setae dissimilar............................................................. S. solidus Kuznetsov
6. Post-ocular bodies present............................................................................... 7
- Post-ocular bodies absent............................................................ S. longiclipeatus sp. nov.
7. Aggenital shield undivided.............................................................................. 8
- Aggenital shield divided................................................................ S. pilatus Kuznetsov
8. Eyes present.......................................................................................... 9
- Eyes absent......................................................................................... 10
9. Dorsal shields with patterns, setae sce on the propodosomal shield........................ S. kelkitensis Dönel & Doğan
- Dorsal shields without patterns, setae sce on minute individual platelets......................... S. harsitensis sp. nov.
10. Dorsal body setae smooth, setae c 2 similar to other dorsal body setae............................... S. pricei Summers
- Dorsal body setae not smooth, setae c 2 dissimilar to other dorsal body setae....................................... 11
11. Setae ve smooth............................................................ S. uzunolukensis Özçelik & Doğan
- Setae ve barbed distally................................................................................ 12
12. Apodemal marking absent, setae vi clearly shorter than setae ve ..................................... S. fimus sp. nov.
- Apodemal marking present, setae vi and setae ve subequal in length.............................. S. communis sp. nov.
description: Published as part of Doğan, Sibel, Doğan, Salih & Erman, Orhan, 2017, Description of five new species of the genus Stigmaeus Koch (Acari: Raphignathoidea: Stigmaeidae) from Turkey, pp. 451-478 in Zootaxa 4276 (4) on page 477, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4276.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/807819