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23 September 2016 A New Eocene Free-Living Cheyletid Mite from Baltic Amber
Andre V. Bochkov, Ekaterina A. Sidorchuk
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Abstract

A new species of predaceous mite, Cheletomimus (Hemicheyletia) crinitus sp. nov. (Acariformes: Cheyletidae), is described from Eocene Baltic amber based on a fossil female. Among species of the genus, it belongs to the C. (H.) wellsi species group (16 extant species) and differs from the closely morphologically related species, C. greenwoodi by the following features. In C. crinitus sp. nov., setae d2 are situated on the hysteronotal shield (vs. off this shield in C. greenwoodi), the propodonotal and hysteronotal shields each bear five pairs of median setae (vs. 3 and 1 pairs of median setae, respectively), setae h1 and h2 are subequal in width to other lateral hysteronotal setae (vs. half the width of other hysteronotal setae).

© 2016 A.V. Bochkov and E.A. Sidorchuk. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (for details please see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Andre V. Bochkov and Ekaterina A. Sidorchuk "A New Eocene Free-Living Cheyletid Mite from Baltic Amber," Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 61(4), 869-874, (23 September 2016). https://doi.org/10.4202/app.00244.2016
Received: 23 January 2016; Accepted: 1 August 2016; Published: 23 September 2016
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