How to translate text using browser tools
28 April 2023 Unguicheylidae fam. nov., a new fossil family of prostigmatic mites (Acari: Prostigmata) from the Cretaceous Taimyr amber
Alexander A. Khaustov, Dmitry D. Vorontsov, Evert E. Lindquist
Author Affiliations +
Abstract

A new monotypic fossil family Unguicheylidae fam. nov. with type genus and species Unguicheylus quadriocellatus gen. nov., sp. nov. is described from the early-Cretaceous (Albian–lower Cenomanian) amber of northern Siberia (Taimyr amber, Baikura locality). The new family is provisionally placed in the superfamily Anystoidea and most similar to the family Pseudocheylidae, but differs mainly in having apomorphically adnate cheliceral bases (free, mobile bases in Pseudocheylidae), and the tarsi of all legs lacking annulated pretarsal stalks bearing reduced claws (present, apomorphic to Pseudocheylidae).

Alexander A. Khaustov, Dmitry D. Vorontsov, and Evert E. Lindquist "Unguicheylidae fam. nov., a new fossil family of prostigmatic mites (Acari: Prostigmata) from the Cretaceous Taimyr amber," Systematic and Applied Acarology 28(4), 766-776, (28 April 2023). https://doi.org/10.11158/saa.28.4.12
Received: 14 February 2023; Accepted: 12 April 2023; Published: 28 April 2023
KEYWORDS
Acariformes
Acarina
Anystida
Anystoidea
paleontology
RIGHTS & PERMISSIONS
Get copyright permission
Back to Top