Corresponding author: Éva Szita (
Academic editor: R. Blackman
This paper describes a new
Szita É, Kaydan MB, Konczné Benedicty Z (2014) Description of
The family
In the present paper one new
The specimens described and recorded in this study were all collected using soil and litter sampling devices, and extracted by Berlese funnel. The samples are preserved in the Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle de Genève (MHNG) collection.
Specimens were prepared for light microscopy using the slide-mounting method discussed by
The digital images of unmounted females were made with a Canon Eos400D camera and an MBC-10 stereomicroscope, and focus-stacking was processed by CombineZP software (
All measurements and counts were taken from all the material available and the values are given as a range for each character.
Dorsum of intact adult female covered with irregular and triangular shell-like wax plates; ventral thoracic wax plates around the appendages and on margin, thorax medially lacking wax plates; wax cover corresponding to wax plates on slide-mounted specimens on both sides (
Slide-mounted adult female with 3-segmented antenna; third antennal segment with slender apical seta, flagellate sensory seta and small subapical seta; second segment with 1 sensory pore. Eye stalk protruding, thumb-like, fused with base of antenna. Legs well developed; leg setae robust, spine-like; trochanter and femur fused, tibia and tarsus fused; tibia with 1 sensory pore and at least 1 fleshy sensory seta; tarsus without tarsal digitules; claw digitules hair-like, claw without a denticle. Labium 1 segmented, with many setae; with 3 long setae near apex of labium, setae very close together, all situated in a single setal socket. Anal ring situated in a fold of derm on dorsal surface, ring bearing 6 setae. Sclerotized plate present on dorsum anterior to anal ring, wider than long. Thumb-like pores forming a cluster on each side of anal ring. Abdominal spiracles in centre of multilocular disc pore cluster present laterad to anal ring (
1 | Setae on antennae hair-like | 2 |
– | Setae on antennae spine-like | 5 |
2 | Multilocular disc pores absent around vulva | 3 |
– | Multilocular disc pores present around vulva | 4 |
3 | Plates 13, 17 and 18 resembling very small groups of spines, without cluster of spines between hind legs, second spine band in ovisac area in a sparse row | |
– | Plates 13, 17 and 18 in complete groups of spines, large cluster of spines between hind legs with a second spine band in ovisac area forming a complete row |
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4 | Wax plate 9 narrow anteriorly, so that wax plate 9 is shaped like an elongated isosceles triangle; wax plate 10 similar in shape to wax plate 9, not so wide anteriorly | |
– | Wax plate 9 wide anteriorly, so that wax plate 9 almost forms an equilatertal triangle; wax plate 10 not similar to wax plate 9, but norrow posteriorly and widening anteriorly | |
5 | Multilocular disc pores present in a band anterior of each spine band within ovisac |
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– | Multilocular disc pores present in a row only in anterior spine band within ovisac |
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Quadrilocular pores 3 µm in diameter, scattered in the ovisac band. Multilocular disc pores with 8–12 loculi around perimeter, one loculus in central hub; 7–8 µm in diameter; present near anterior edges of spine bands, scattered along lateral edge of each ovisac band. Abdominal spiracles present anterior of ovisac band; without sclerotized vestibule.
India.
Distribution map of
This species is named after the Italian coccidologist Dr. Antonio Tranfaglia.
Distribution. Guinea. Distribution note of Ghana (
Distribution. Angola (
Distribution. Japan (
Distribution. Nepal (
Distribution. Taiwan, Thailand (
We would like to thank the TUBITAK TOVAG (104 O 148) and OTKA (Hungarian National Science Found) (Grant No. T 048801, T 075889) for funding this project. The second author (MBK) thanks TUBITAK for their financial support to enable study of the family