Foveodendrolaelaps
Creators: name: Ma, Li-Ming
name: Ho, Chyi-Chen
name: Wang, Shun-Cheng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Mesostigmata
Digamasellidae
Foveodendrolaelaps

description: Key to species of the subgenus Foveodendrolaelaps of genus Dendrolaelaps (based on adult females primarily)
1. The two V-shaped incisions in the anterior margin of opisthonotal shield each with a transverse covering plate............ 2
- The two V-shaped incisions in the anterior margin of opisthonotal shield without transverse covering plate............... 5
2. Peritreme extending anteriorly to level of s1 or beyond s1 .................................................... 3
- Peritreme extending anteriorly to level of s3 and r3 ............... D. (F.) brevipiloides Hirschmann & Wisniewski 1982
3. Peritrematic shield fused with podonotal shield at the level of z1, seta r3 on peritrematic shield.... D. (F.) rectus Karg 1962
- Peritrematic shield restrict to peritreme, not fused with podonotal shield; seta r3 on soft cuticle along lateral margins of podonotal shield, known only from deutonymph............................................................. 4
4. Setae s2, r2 and r4 on podonotal shield; Z5 longer than S5............ D. (F.) brasiliensis Hirschmann & Wisniewski 1984
- Setae s2, r2 and r4 on soft cuticle along lateral margins of podonotal shield; Z5 shorter than S5..................................................................................... D. (F.) samsinaki Hirschmann & Wisniewski 1982
5. Seta Jv1 on ventrianal shield............................................................................ 6
- Seta Jv1 on soft cuticle along anterior margin of ventrianal shield.............................................. 8
6. Seta Zv3 on soft cuticle along lateral margins of ventrianal shield.. D. (F.) stammeriformis Hirschmann & Wisniewski 1982
- Seta Zv3 on ventrianal shield........................................................................... 7
7. Setae s1 on soft cuticle along lateral margins of podonotal shield; r3 on peritrematic shield; S5 slightly shorter than 2.5 times the length of j5; ventrianal shield subrectangular........................................ D. (F.) linjianzheni sp. nov.
- Setae s1 on podonotal shield, r3 on podonotal shield; S5 approximately 4 times the length of j5; ventrianal shield ova................................................................. D. (F.) arenarioides Hirschmann & Wisniewski 1982
8. Setae s2, r2 and r3 on peritrematic shield; R2 and R3 on opisthonothal shield; Jv5 on anal shield................................................................................................ D. (F.) stammeri Hirschmann 1960
- Setae s2, r2 and r3 on soft cuticle along lateral margins of peritrematic shield; R2 and R3 on soft cuticle along lateral margins of opisthonothal shield; Jv5 on soft cuticle along lateral margins of ventrianal shield....... D. (F.) foveolatus (Leitner 1949)
description: Published as part of Ma, Li-Ming, Ho, Chyi-Chen & Wang, Shun-Cheng, 2014, Two new species of Digamasellidae from Taiwan (Acari: Mesostigmata), pp. 43-58 in Zootaxa 3768 (1) on page 57, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3768.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/285612