Papillacarus (Vepracarus) Aoki 1965
Creators: name: Arun, A.
name: Ramani, N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Sarcoptiformes
Lohmanniidae
Papillacarus

description: Key to the adults of known species of Papillacarus (Vepracarus) of the world
1 Anal and adanal plates separated throughout their length...................................................... 2
- Anal and adanal plates separated anteriorly and fused posteriorly.............................................. 20
2 Notogastral setae tree shaped............................................................................ 3
- Notogastral setae smooth, setiform, barbed or ciliate......................................................... 8
3 Notogaster with thickly punctate tubercles [India, Vietnam].................... P. (V.) cornutus (Sarkar & Subías, 1984)
- Notogaster with papilli................................................................................. 4
4 an 2 shorter than the distance between an 1 and an 2 ............................................................ 5
- an 2 as long as or longer than the distance between an 1 and an 2.................................................. 7
5 Notogastral bands absent [Cáucaso]............................................... P. (V.) abchasicus Tarba, 1985
- Notogastral bands present............................................................................... 6
6 Sensillus with 9–10 long pectinations; notogastral band S 5 present [China]. P. (V.) hexagonus Ren, Yang, Liang & Xie, 2018
- Sensillus with 13–14 long pectinations; notogastral band S 5 absent [Japan, Tahiti. Tongatapu, India, Philippines, Vietnam, Iran]......................................................................... P. (V.) hirsutus (Aoki, 1961)
7 All genital setae branched; exa as long as or longer than the distance between exa and in [Korea]............................................................................................... P. (V.) koreanus (Mahunka, 1973)
- Anterior pairs of genital setae branched and posterior pairs simple; exa shorter than the distance between exa and in [Senegal, Vietnam]...................................................................... P. (V.) gueyeae (Pérez-Íñigo, 1989)................................................................................................
8 ss with long branches; notogastral setae variable in size and nature.............................................. 9
- ss with short barbs; notogastral setae c 1, d 1 and e 1 thin and smooth, others ciliate [Iran, Spain]............................................................................................. P. (V.) chamartinensis Pérez-Íñigo, 1967
9 All primary notogastral setae barbed, branched or ciliate..................................................... 10
- At least two pairs of primary notogastral setae smooth....................................................... 18
10 Notogaster possess polygonal ornamentation.............................................................. 11
- Notogaster without polygonal ornamentation, either with papilli or tubercles..................................... 12
11 Setae c 1, d 1, f 1 almost same in length [Brazil]......................... P. (V.) parapolysetosus Ermilov & Tolstikov, 2015
- Setae c 1, d 1, f 1 differ in length (c 1> d 1> f 1) [Vietnam]................... P. (V.) polysetosus Ermilov, Anichkin & Wu, 2012
12 Seta in with long branches [Indonesia]............................................. P. (V.) ramosus Balogh, 1961
- Seta in setiform, ciliate................................................................................ 13
13 Notogastral bands indistinct............................................................................ 14
- Notogastral bands distinct............................................................................. 16
14 Rostrum more or less rectilinear with median angular incision [Vietnam]............................................................................................... P. (V.) whitteni Fernández, Theron, Rollard & Leiva, 2015
- Rostrum narrowly round or truncate, without median incision................................................. 15
15 Genital setae very small, without branches [China, Philippines]....................... P. (V.) cruzae Corpuz-Raros, 1979
- Antero-lateral pairs and two postero-lateral pairs of genital setae long and smooth, rest with short cilia [Vietnam]........................................................................................ P. (V.) luteus Ermilov, 2015
16 All genital setae branched or barbed [China]................................. P. (V.) konglinensis Chen & Yang, 2011
- Setae g 7, g 8 and g 10 smooth, others branched................................................................ 17
17 Neotrichal setae present from e series; setae exp, in and le sub- equal in length [China, Iran]............................................................................................... P. (V.) punctatus (Hu & X. Wang, 1990)
- Neotrichal setae present from c series; seta exp longer than le and in [China]............................................................................................. P. (V.) jinggangshanensis (Y. Chen, Yang & Liang, 2010)
18 All prodorsal setae sub-equal in length [Ukraine].................................... P. (V.) akimovi Sergienko, 1992
- Prodorsal setae variable in length........................................................................ 19
19 Seta in as long as the marginal notogastral setae; ss with 16 long branches [Philippines].................................................................................................. P. (V.) ramirezae (Corpuz-Raros, 1979)
- Seta in much smaller than the marginal notogastral setae; ss with 11–12 long branches [Iran, Thailand]................................................................................................ P. (V.) ogawai (Aoki, 1965)
20 Prodorsum and notogaster covered with large, finely punctate tubercles [India]................ P. (V.) acaciensis sp. nov.
- Prodorsum and notogaster bear pappilli [Bermuda, Cuba, Mexico, St. Lucia]......... P. (V.) incompletus (Mahunka, 1985)
description: Published as part of Arun, A. & Ramani, N., 2020, Two remarkable new species of oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) from Acacia litter of Kerala, India, pp. 539-558 in Zootaxa 4877 (3) on pages 548-549, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4877.3.7, http://zenodo.org/record/4570503