| id | 5245 (last modified: 5.12.2018) |
| title | Revision of the genus Mackiena Traub and Evans, 1950 including Tinpinna Toshioka and Hiromatsu, 1956 as a new subgenus (Acarina, Trombidulidae) |
| year | 1965 |
| paper | Acarologia (Paris) |
| edition | 7 (Suppl.) |
| page | 297-311 |
| language | English |
| checked | paper |
| abstract | The genus Mackiena is revised. It is very close to bird-chiggers of the genus Neoschoengastia but differs especially in possessing a distinct pretarsal caruncle. This caruncle is a development of a rudimentary bud found on the pretarsi of many other species. In subgenus Mackiena the caruncle is well developed and the empodium is lost. In fact, the caruncle does not replace the absent empodium as some authors have been inclined to suppose. In subgenus Tinpinna, caruncle and empodium coexist together, demnonstrating that they are two distinctr structures.
Tinpinna Toshioka and Hiromatsu is reducced to a subgenus of Mackiena Traub and Evans. M. (M.) empodiformia, M. (M.) todai, M. (M.) smadeli, M. (T.) sugiharai are revised and a new species M. (T.) premackiena is described, which clearly lings Mackiena with Neoschoengastia. |
| URL | https://www1.montpellier.inra.fr/CBGP/acarologia/article.php?id=3714Go to site |
| author | Vercammen-Grandjean, Paul Henry |
| coauthor | Kumada, Nobuo |