Key to adult females of Terminalichus 1. Anterior pair of dorsocentral setae c 1 present; posterior medioventral setae 4a about twice as long as anterior medioventral setae 3a.................................................................... T. panajiensis Maninder & Ghai - Setae c 1 absent; 4a more than 3times as long as 3a .......................................................... 2 2. Prodorsal setae v 2 absent; setae 4a about three quarters of 1a ...................................... T. sanya sp. nov. - Prodorsal setae v 2 present; 4a approximately 1.3 times as long as 1a or subequal.................................... 3 3. Setae 4a approximately 1.3 times as long as 1a; trochanters I–IV with 1, 1, 2, 2; prodorsal setae v 2 approximately two-thirds of sc 2......................................................................... T. delhiensis Maninder & Ghai - Setae 4a and 1a subequal in length; trochanters I–IV with 1, 1, 2, 1 or 1, 1, 1, 0; setae v 2 about 1.5 times as long as sc 2 or sub- equal............................................................................................... 4 4. Trochanters I–IV with 1, 1, 1, 0; femora I–IV with 2, 2, 1, 1; femora I–IV with 1, 1, 0, 0......... T. psidi Mohanasundaram - Trochanters I–IV with 1, 1, 2, 1; femora I–IV with 3, 3, 2, 2; femora I–IV with 2, 2, 0, 0............................. 5 5. Setae v 2 and sc 2 subequal; setae e 3 about 3.5 times as long as h 2...................... T. karachiensis Anwarullah & Khan - Setae v 2 about 1.5 times as long as sc 2; setae e 3 about 3 times as long as h 2......................................... 6 6. Tibiae I–IV with 4, 4, 2, 2; tarsi I–IV with 3, 3, 3, 3*.................................. T. dehlonensis Sadana & Sidhu - Tibiae I–IV with 5, 5, 2, 2; tarsi I–IV with 6+1 ω, 6+1 ω, 4, 4............................... T. serratus Nassar & Ghai

Published as part of Xu, Yun, Fan, Qing-Hai & Huang, Jian, 2014, Description of a new species of Terminalichus (Acari: Trombidiformes: Tenuipalpidae) from China, pp. 233-250 in Zootaxa 3753 (3) on pages 248-249, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3753.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/226373