Aculus Keifer 1959

Aculus Keifer, 1959 Type species. Phyllocoptes ligustri Keifer, 1938a: 190–191, 204. Diagnosis. Body fusiform; scapular setae (sc) and tubercles on rear shield margin, directed posteriorly, frontal lobe broad; coxae I and coxae II each with 3 setae; legs with usual segmentation and setae, empodium less than 7-rayed; opisthosomal annuli differential dorsoventrally. This genus consists of 248 species (Amrine et al. 2003). Only 5 species have been recorded from Southeast Asia.

Published as part of Xue, Xiao-Feng & Zhang, Zhi-Qiang, 2009, 2257, pp. 1-128 in Zootaxa 2257 on page 81

Keywords

Arthropoda, Arachnida, Animalia, Trombidiformes, Biodiversity, Eriophyidae, Aculus, Taxonomy

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