Pulvinarisca Borchsenius, 1953

Pulvinarisca Borchsenius, 1953 View in CoL View at ENA

Type species: Pulvinarisca serpentina Balachowsky, 1929 .

Generic diagnosis. Adult female with: (i) body more-or-less elongate oval, widest at abdomen, with slight but distinct indentations in stigmatic areas; (ii) derm entirely membranous, lacking areolations; (iii) dorsal pores of several types, frequent, scattered throughout; (iv) dorsal tubercles and dorsal tubular ducts present or absent; (v) dorsal setae short, thick and bluntly pointed (except pointed in P. serpentina ); (vi) marginal setae spinose, each with simple pointed apex and well-developed basal-socket; (vii) stigmatic spines usually numbering more than 3 per spiracular cleft, clearly differentiated from marginal setae; (viii) multilocular disc-pores present around genital opening and on preceding abdominal segments; (ix) ventral tubular ducts of 2 or 3 types, with distributions variable; (x) anal plates together quadrate, dorsal surface with or without ridges; (xi) each anal plate with spinose, nonspatulate setae along inner margin, and (xii) each claw with a denticle on widest part (from Hodgson 1968, as Macropulvinaria ; and Hodgson 1994).