Neocalcealges
Creators: name: Wang, Zi-Ying
name: Proctor, Heather
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Astigmata
Trouessartiidae
Neocalcealges

description: Key to species of Neocalcealges (modified from Orwig 1968)
1. Setae e2 absent; setae d1 present or absent.................................................................. 2
- Setae e2 and d1 present................................................................................. 3
2. Setae d1 absent. Male: distance between setae g and ps 3 7–12 µm. Female: copulatory aperture located far from anterior end of supranal cleft.................................................................... N. cuspilobus Orwig, 1968
- Setae d1 present. Male: distance between setae g and ps 3 13–17 µm. Female: copulatory aperture located close to anterior end of supranal cleft................................................................... N. undulatus Orwig, 1968
3. Male: posterior margin of terminal lamellae margins smooth................................................... 4
- Male: posterior margin of terminal lamellae margins with indentations........................................... 6
4. Male: distance between setae g and ps3 20 µm or more. Female: setae h1 located anterior to end of supranal concavity, far from setae h2 ............................................................................................. 5
- Male: distance between setae g and ps3 10 µm or less. Female: setae h1 located posterior to anterior end of supranal concavity,
closed to setae h2.................................................................. N. inauditus Orwig, 1968 5. Male: distance between setae g 23–29 µm, terminal lamellae rounded. Female: distance between supranal cleft and copulatory aperture 12–18 µm............................................................... N. segregatus Orwig, 1968
- Male: distance between setae g 15–17 µm, terminal lamellae truncate. Female: distance between supranal cleft and copulatory aperture 29–33 µm................................................................. N. angustus Orwig, 1968
6. Male: terminal lamellae each with 3 or more indentations. Female with setae h1 located posterior to end of supranal cleft, close to setae h2 ........................................................................................... 7
- Male: terminal lamellae each with 2 indentations. Female with setae h1 located anterior to end of supranal cleft, far from setae h2........................................................................... N. emarginatus Orwig, 1968
7. Male: terminal lamellae each with 4–7 indentations (Fig. 3 A). Female:distance from copulatory aperture to supranal concavity 42–57 µm (Fig. 6 A)...................................................................... N. davidi sp. nov.
- Male: terminal lamellae each with 3 indentations (Fig. 3 B). Female: distance from copulatory aperture to supranal concavity 62–75 µm (Fig. 2 A).................................................................... N. chrysotis sp. nov.
description: Published as part of Wang, Zi-Ying & Proctor, Heather, 2015, Two new feather mites of the genus Neocalcealges Orwig (Analgoidea: Trouessartiidae) from the Sichuan province of China, pp. 567-576 in Zootaxa 3946 (4) on pages 575-576, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3946.4.5, http://zenodo.org/record/238540