Ficus
Creators: name: Wang, Guoquan
name: Wei, Suigai
name: Yang, Ding
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Littorinimorpha
Ficidae
Ficus

description: Key to the species on Ficus from China
1. Gnathosoma small in comparison to body, chelicerae straight or slightly curved, pedipalps with terminal segments short and truncate................................................................................................................................. Eriophyidae .....2
- Gnathosoma large in comparison to body, chelicerae abruptly curved and bent down near base, pedipalps attenuate. ...................................................................................................................................................... Diptilomiopidae ....15
2. Tibiae reduced or fused with tarsi, coxal setae 1b present, scapular tubercles and setae ahead of rear shield margin, genu II setae present, dorsal opisthosoma with a median ridge........... Nothopodinae, Colopodacini, Colopodacus ....3
- Tibiae distinct from tarsi............................................................................................................................................... 7
3. Female coverflap with granules or short lines.............................................................................................................. 4
- Female coverflap smooth.............................................................................................................................................. 5
4. Prodorsal shield with median line incomplete, admedian and submedian lines absent, empodium 5-rayed ................. ............................................................................................................. Colopodacus obovataus Huang & Wang, 2003
- Prodorsal shield with median and admedian lines complete, submedian lines incomplete, empodium 4-rayed. .......... ............................................................................................................................... Colopodacus yunnanensis sp. nov.
5. Dorsal annuli with elongated microtubercles ......................................................... Colopodacus hainanensis sp. nov.
- Dorsal annuli smooth ....................................................................................................................................................6
6. Prodorsal shield with a row of anterior cells, tarsal solenidion knobbed ... Colopodacus virens Ou, Zhu & Wei, 2008
- Prodorsal shield not forming anterior cells, tarsal solenidion tapered............................................................................ ........................................................................................................ Colopodacus begalensis Mohanasundaram, 1981
7. Female genital apodeme bent up; coverflap with two rows of ridges; female genitalia appressed to coxae ................. ......................................................................................................................................................... Cecidophyinae .....8
- Female genital apodeme extending forward; coverflap ridges sculptured rarely in two ranks; female genitalia not appressed to coxae ........................................................................................................................... Phyllocoptinae ...10
8. Scapular tubercles and setae absent .................................................................................................... Cecidophyini ....9
- Scapular setae directed to rear, genu II setae present, coxae with ridges, tarsal solenidion tapered, empodium 5-rayed .............................................................................................................. Colomerini ..... Gammaphytoptus ficus sp. nov.
9. Body vermiform, dorsal opisthosoma without furrow, coxae with ridges, tarsal solenidion tapered, empodium 4- rayed................................................................................................................ Cecidophyes thainlandica Keifer, 1975
- Body fusiform, dorsal opisthosoma with a broad furrow, prodorsal shield sculptured with short irregular lines, empodium 5-rayed ...................................................................................................... Glyptacus microcarpae sp. nov.
10. Opisthosoma with lateral lobes or pointed projections.......................................................................... Tegonotini ....11
- Opisthosoma not as above .......................................................................................................................................... 12
11. Scapular tubercles ahead of rear shield margin, coxae with short lines, empodium 4-rayed ......................................... .......................................................................................................................................... Tegonotus hispidae sp. nov.
- Scapular tubercles on rear shield margin, female coverflap with two rows of ridges .................................................... ............................................................................................................................. Shevtchenkella hainanensis sp. nov.
12. Scapular tubercles and setae ahead of rear shield margin, if tubercles and setae near rear shield margin, then setae directed forward, up or centrad ........................................................................................................ Phyllocoptini ….13
- Scapular tubercles on rear shield margin, scapular setae directed to rear and divergently, dorsal opisthosoma with one ridge, tibial setae absent, coxae with ridges ....................... Anthocoptini ..... Sinacus caricae Zhao & Kuang, 2000
13. Dorsal opisthosoma evenly round, scapular tubercles on rear shield margin, setae directed convergently to rear, pro- dorsal shield with lines forming networks, female coverflap with ridges ..................... Vasates irisanae Huang, 1992
- Dorsal opisthosoma with three ridges, scapular tubercles ahead of rear shield margin ............................................. 14
14. Dorsal opisthosoma with median ridge ending in a broad furrow, elongated microtubercles strictly on median dorsal opisthosoma, empodium 5-rayed ................................................................... Calepitrimerus fici Wei, Li & Qin, 2004
- Dorsal opisthosoma with median ridge fading simultaneously with lateral ridges, female coverflap with 17 longitu- dinal ridges, empodium 4-rayed................................................................ Epitrimerus irisanus Huang & Wang, 2004
15. Empodium divided, scapular setae, genu and coxal setae 1b absent; coxae smooth, empodium each branch 7-rayed. ............................................................................................. Diptilomiopinae ..... Diptilomiopus cumingis Huang, 2001
- Empodium entire..................................................................................................................... Rhyncaphytoptinae .....16
16. Opisthosomal annuli subequal dorsoventrally, frontal lobe absent, coxae with lines, empodium 4-rayed. ...................
............................................................................................................................ Rhinophytoptus dudichi Farkas, 1963 - Dorsal annuli broader than ventral annuli, frontal lobe present ................................................................................. 17
17. Dorsal opisthosomal annuli with microtubercles................................ Rhyncaphytoptus caricae Zhao & Kuang, 1998
- Dorsal opisthosomal annuli smooth.............................................. Rhyncaphytoptus zhongshani Zhao & Kuang, 1998
description: Published as part of Wang, Guoquan, Wei, Suigai & Yang, Ding, 2009, Six new eriophyoid mites (Acari: Eriophyoidea) associated with Ficus spp. (Moraceae) from China, pp. 49-62 in Zootaxa 2201 on pages 50-51, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.189637