Geckobiella Hirst
Creators: name: Paredes-León, Ricardo
name: Klompen, Hans
name: Pérez, Tila M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Prostigmata
Pterygosomatidae
Geckobiella

description: Key to females of Geckobiella Hirst sensu nov.
1. With hypertrichous idiosoma........................................................................... 2
-. With oligotrichous idiosoma............................................................................ 3
2. Setae ps1–3 sparsely barbed or peripectinate......................................................... G. texana
-. Setae ps1–2 spatulate spinose and club-like and ps3 sparsely barbed...................................... G. harrisi
3. Prodorsal shield shaped as an inverted isosceles triangle...................................................... 4
-. Prodorsal shield shaped as an inverted pentagon, ovoid, inverted pear-shaped or absent............................. 5
4. Anterior margin of prodorsal shield straight (Fig. 2 A).......................................... G. trombidiiformis
-. Anterior margin of prodorsal shield with a notch (Fig. 2 B)............................................. G. p el aez i
5. Prodorsal shield shaped as an inverted pentagon............................................................ 6
-. Prodorsal shield ovoid, shaped as an inverted pear or absent.................................................. 7
6. With anterior sides almost parallel (Fig. 2 H)......................................... Geckobiella donnae sp. nov.
-. With anterior sides sharply converging anteriorly (Fig. 2 C).............................................. G. boneti
7. Prodorsal shield ovoid (Fig. 2 D)................................................................... G. bakeri
-. Prodorsal shield shaped as inverted pear or absent.......................................................... 8
8. Prodorsal shield absent.......................................................................... G. st a m i i
-. Prodorsal shield shaped as an inverted pear................................................................ 9
9. Prodorsal shield with one pair of setae (sci) (Fig. 2 E)............................................... G. pyriformis
-. Prodorsal shield with two pairs of setae (vi and sci)........................................................ 10
10. Dorsal idiosomal setal pair h1 peripectinate, prodorsal shield clearly wider than long (length ca. 198 µm x width 226 µm) (Fig. 2 G), and solenidion ω 1 of tarsus I long (ca. 39 µm)..................................................... G. diolii
-. Dorsal idiosomal setal pair h1 spinose spatulate (club-like), prodorsal shield almost as long as wide (length ca. 181 µm x width 189 µm) (Fig. 2 F), and solenidion ω 1 of tarsus I shorter (ca. 27 µm)...................................... G. javieri
description: Published as part of Paredes-León, Ricardo, Klompen, Hans & Pérez, Tila M., 2012, Systematic revision of the genera Geckobiella Hirst, 1917 and Hirstiella Berlese, 1920 (Acari: Prostigmata: Pterygosomatidae) with description of a new genus for American species parasites on geckos formerly placed in Hirstiella, pp. 1-40 in Zootaxa 3510 on page 16, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.282509