Mononychellus Wainstein, 1971

Genus Mononychellus Wainstein, 1971 View in CoL View at ENA

Type species: Tetranychus planki McGregori, 1950

Eotetranychus planki (McGregori, 1950) New combination in Pritchard and Baker, 1955 Fig.108–110

Mononychus mcgregori Flechtmann & Baker, 1970 View in CoL . Description

Mononychellus mcgregori ( Flechtmann & Baker 1970) View in CoL . New combination by Flechtmann and

Baker (1975) (Fig: 109 in Pritchard and Baker (1955) is Mononychellus mcgregori (Flechtmann

& Baker)

The name Mononychellus was proposed as a new combination for the genus Mononychus Wainstein, 1960 (with the type species Tetranychus planki McGregor, 1950 ). This change was necessary because the genus name Mononychus was already assigned to Mononychus Schueppel, 1824 ( Insecta: Coleoptera ) and Mononychus Agassiz, 1846 ( Insecta: Hemiptera ) (Wainstein 1970). Tuttle et al. (1976) characterised the genus Mononychellus Wainstein, 1960

by the following features: duplex setae on tarsus of leg I distal and adjacent; empodium split near the middle into three proximal hairs and tenent hairs on pad like claw ( Bolland et al. 1998);

dorsal striae of opisthosoma with different patterns; dorsal idiosomal setae usually strongly serrate and sometimes borne on small tubercles; two pairs of anal setae ( Wainstein 1960, 1971 ; Meyer 1974 ; Tuttle et al. 1976).