Ololaelaps formidabilis, adult female. A ventrolateral region of idiosoma, showing the well-reticulated epipleuron (ventrolateral portion of dorsal shield), gland opening gd4, and the dorsal shield’s marginal strip (“strip”); note that the epipleuron appears broader than in live specimen, because the specimen was squashed on the slide, as indicated by the broken dorsal shield B central region of the dorsal shield, showing the light reticulation of the opisthonotal area (near J1, Jx) and even lighter reticulation of the podonotal area (see between setae j5) C–E metapodal platelet (arrow), variously fused to the parapodal plate and contiguous with the hologastric shield. Scale bars: 50 µm (A); 100 µm (B); 50 µm (C–E).