Comprehensive Description
provided by Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology
Brevipalpus cercidium
This species is distinctive in having small dorsal body setae, a short rostrum, and the venter entirely covered with a reticulate pattern.
FEMALE.—Rostrum short, not reaching to midpoint of femur I; palpus with three distal setae; rostral shield not ornamented. Tarsus II with uncinate claws; with two solenidia; dorsal setae on femora I and II stronger than body setae and lanceolate-serrate. Hysterosoma with reticulate pattern between dorsocentrals, transverse pattern posterior to dorsocentrals; mediolateral groove broad and with longitudinal pattern; hysterosomal setae similar to those of propodosoma. Venter of body covered with reticulate pattern; genital plate with transverse striation pattern; ventral plate with small transverse areolae; area between metapodosomal setae with small areolae. Length of body including rostrum 230μm; width 121μm.
NYMPH.—With all body and leg setae small, those of hysterosoma smaller.
HOLOTYPE.—Female, USNM 3637, Cercidium floridum Bentham, Mazatlan, 24 July.
Nymph with the same data but collected 26 July. Other specimens collected from Brickellia californicum (Torrey and Gray) Gray, Fresnillo, 3 August, and Ambrosio confertiflora (De Candolle) Ryberg, Hermosillo, 17 July.
- bibliographic citation
- Baker, Edward William, Tuttle, Donald M., and Abbatiello, M. 1975. "The false spider mites of northwestern and north central Mexico (Acarina, Tenuipalpidae)." Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 1-23. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.194
