Afropolonia

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Afropolonia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Trombidiformes
Family: Trombiculidae
Tribe: Apoloniini
Genus: Afropolonia
Goff, 1983[1]
Type species
Afropolonia tgifi
Goff, 1983[1]

Afropolonia is a genus of

type host is the Namaqua rock rat. M. Lee Goff circumscribed Afropolonia and described
A. tgifi in 1983.

Diagnosis and description

In

palpal tarsus and in lacking subterminala I.[1][2][3]

Russian acarologist Alexandr A. Stekolnikov's 2018 key to African Trombiculidae paired Afropolonia with a pair including Straelensia and Vargatula. His key distinguished Afropolonia from those two genera in having both an anterior and a posterior pair of sternal setae, in having branched galealae, and having a coxal setation formula of 1-1-1.[4]

The idiosoma, or body, of the A. tgifi larva measures 455 μm × 230 μm (0.0179 in × 0.0091 in). Its anterior eyes are 11 μm in diameter while its posterior eyes have a diameter of 6 μm.[1]

Phylogeny

Afropolonia is in the subfamily Apoloniinae.[3][4] Goff placed Afropolonia in the tribe Apoloniini due to the sensillae having an "unexpanded" shape.[1] Goff also included the genera Apolonia, Straelensia, Vargatula, and Womersia in Apoloniini,[1] following P. H. Vercammen-Grandjean and M. Kolebinova's 1968 circumscription of the tribe.[5] A fifth genus, Liuella was later added to this tribe.[3]

Distribution

Afropolonia is found in South Africa.

type locality for A. tgifi is Studers Pass.[1][4][a]

Biology

Namaqua rock rat (Aethomys namaquensis)

The

type host is the Namaqua rock rat.[1][b] As of 2018, this is the only known host.[3][4]

Taxonomic history

The American entomologist M. Lee Goff

Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences; the paratype was deposited in the National Museum of Natural History.[1]

The

ICZN Code discouraged "comical" names.[8][6] Goff has surmised that the Bulletin of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences subsequently accepted his paper because the European editors were unfamiliar with this term.[6]

Notes

  1. ^ Goff's 1983 paper reported the type locality as "Sturder Pass".[1]
  2. ^ Goff's 1983 paper reported the type host under the combination Aethomys namaquensis.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Goff, M. Lee (1983). "A New Genus and Species of Apoloniinae (Acari: Trombiculidae) from South Africa with a Key to the Species in the Subfamily" (PDF). Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique. Entomologie. 55 (9): 1–5.
  2. ISSN 0022-2585
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    PMID 17120502
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    doi:10.5852/ejt.2018.395
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  5. PMID 5686235
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    JSTOR 3981700
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  7. PMID 26257573
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  8. ^ Stoll, N. R.; Dollfus, R. Ph.; Forest, J.; Riley, N. D.; Sabrosky, C. W.; Wright, C. W.; Melville, R. V., eds. (1964). "Appendix D: Recommendations on the Formation of Names". International Code of Zoological Nomenclature Adopted by the XV International Congress of Zoology. Vol. 1964 (2nd ed.). London: International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature. pp. 104–105.
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