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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Mites and Ticks (Acari) » Parasitiformes » Mesostigs (Mesostigmata) » Uropodina » Uropodoidea
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Elongated Uropodoid, dorsal
Copyright © 2013 Edward L. Ruden

Elongated Uropodoid, dorsal
Sandia Mountains, Bernalillo County, New Mexico, USA
April 28, 2013
Size: 0.491 mm dorsal shield
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I collected this mite on Tree Spring Trl. 147, 9000 ft, Sandia Crest 7.5’ quadrangle in the Sandia Mountains, Bernalillo Co, NM from a Berlese funnel loaded with forest floor detritus collected from under and around a rotting pine log in a conifer forest. The log was heavily decayed, with most of its mass having disintegrated.

Further ID is appreciated.

This image is from a CombineZP processed stack of 257 images with a 0.9 µm step taken with a Nikon BD Plan Apo 40/0.8 210/00 mm microscope objective + adapter/extension tube + Nikon D300 camera.

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Elongated Uropodoid, dorsal Elongated Uropodoid, ventral Elongated Uropodoid, lateral Elongated Uropodoid, anterior
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Contributed by Edward L. Ruden on 5 May, 2013 - 7:51pm
Last updated 1 July, 2017 - 5:37pm

Adult Uropodoidea
Dave Walter responds,

"Looks like it probably is an adult Uropodoidea (ventral shields are better indicators than dorsal shields). Unfortuantely, except for a few distinctive genera, the uropodoids are intractable. Most of the previous work is in German and the workers even more peculiar and idiosyncratic than most acarological taxonomists."
… Edward L. Ruden, 7 May, 2013 - 8:14am login or register to post comments

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