Paracamisia, Olszanowski, Ziemowit & Norton, Roy A., 2002

Paracamisia gen. n.

Diagnosis

Camisiid mites (Grandjean 1953, Sitnikova 1975) with the following combination of adult characters. Prodorsum densely and deeply foveate; porose bothridial saccule unusually large. Notogaster strongly convex; cuticle smooth, rather shiny, without longitudinal ridges or lateral folds and without suprapleural scissure separating dorsal and lateral parts of plate; with 15 pairs of setae plus alveolar vestiges of pair f1; setae without basal apophyses or tubercles and of diverse lengths (rows h and p shorter than others). Coxisternal pairs fused medially; setation: 3­1­3­3. Preanal plate distinct, triangular, porose. Aggenital, anal and adanal setation 2, 2, and 3 pairs, respectively; genital plates transversely divided by poorly sclerotized band, medial region of plates without longitudinal, submarginal carina. Stenarthric subcapitulum with two pairs of medial genal setae ( m) and two pairs of adoral setae; palp setation 0­1­0­3­7. Tarsi monodactylous. Solenidial formulae (legs I­IV): genua 1­1­1­1; tibiae 2­1­1­1; tarsi 3­2­0­0.

Type species

Paracamisia osornensis sp. n.