Notophthiracarus parapaulianus Niedbała & Starý, 2016, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Niedbała, Wojciech
name: Starý, Josef
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Phthiracaridae
Notophthiracarus
Notophthiracarus parapaulianus

description: Notophthiracarus parapaulianus sp. nov.
(Fig. 2A–G)
Measurements of holotype. Prodorsum: length 159, width 114, height 61; prodorsal setae: sensillus 104, interlamellar 24, lamellar 7, rostral 20; notogaster: length 278, width 197, height 182; notogastral setae: c 1 42, c 1/ c 1– d 1=0.6, h 1 and ps 1 38; genito-aggenital plate 68×61, ano-adanal plate 114×53.
Description. Small-sized species. Colour brownish. Body integument distinctly foveolate.
Prodorsum with lateral carinae and posterior furrows well developed. Sigillar fields feeble, median longer than laterals. Sensilli very long needleform, sickle-shaped, rough, bent posteriorly. Interlamellar and rostral setae semierect, short, thick, covered with small spines in distal half, obtuse distally, similar to notogastral setae. Lamellar setae minute, spiniform. Exobothridial setae vestigial; mutual length of setae: ss> in> ro> le.
Notogaster with rigid, relatively short (c 1<c 1– d 1) notogastral setae, obtuse distally, covered with small cilia in distal half. Setae c 1 close to anterior margin, setae c 2 and c 3 remote from margin, setae c 2 more than c 3. Vestigial setae f 1 situated posteriorly of h 1 setae. Notogastral lyrifissures invisible.
Ventral region. Setae h of subcapitular mentum considerably shorter than distance between them. Arrangement of genital setae: 5: 4. Ano-adanal plates with 5 pairs of setae, setae ad 2 longest and also obtuse and ciliate distally as notogastral setae, other setae pointed, rough.
Legs. Chaetome of legs complete. Setae d on femora I small and slightly remote from distal end of article, seta l" situated in middle part of article.
Material examined. Holotype is deposited at DATE from locus typicus MAG-290 Central Madagascar, Andasibe—Mantadia National Park, circuit Eulophia, marking 550 m, evergreen rain forest, sifting of leaf litter sample, Winkler apparatus extraction, 28. 0 1. 2015, leg. P. Baňař and E. M. Rabotoson, and the paratype is deposited at ISB from locality MAG-295, Central Madagascar, Andasibe—Mantadia National Park, Mantadia, circuit Rianasoa, 18°50'01" S, 48°26'18" E, about 1000 m a.s.l., evergreen rain forest, sifting of bamboo litter, Winkler apparatus extraction, 29. 0 1. 2015, leg. P. Baňař and E. M. Rabotoson.
Etymology. The prefix para is Latin meaning “near” and refers to the similarity the new species with Notophthiracarus paulianus (Balogh, 1962).
Comparison and diagnosis. The new species is well characterized by the relatively short rigid notogastral, interlamellar, rostral and ad 2 setae, obtuse distally and long, sickle-shaped sensilli. The most similar N. paulianus differs by shorter notogastral setae, different arrangement c 1–3 setae and position of ad 2 setae, slightly anterior of an 2 setae, versus between anal setae (Balogh 1962).
Distribution. Madagascar, probably endemic species.
description: Published as part of Niedbała, Wojciech & Starý, Josef, 2016, New and little known species of ptyctimous mites (Acari, Oribatida) from Madagascar, pp. 587-599 in Zootaxa 4103 (6) on page 592, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4103.6.8, http://zenodo.org/record/255911