Pseudopronematulus Fan & Li, 1992

De VisK, Raf M. J., VervaetK, Lore, LeeuwenK, Thomas Van, K, Alice de Freitas Braga, K, Raphael de Campos Castilho & UeckermannK, Edward A., 2024, Description of two new genera, three new species, and redescription of two species of Pronematinae (Acari: Iolinidae), Acarologia 64 (4), pp. 1063-1099 : 1070

Pseudopronematulus Fan & Li, 1992

Pseudopronematulus Fan and Li 1992: 396 .

Type species — Pseudopronematulus acus Fan & Li, 1992 .

Diagnosis – Adult females can be distinguished from those of other genera by the presence of one seta on trochanters I to III, seven setae on tarsus II and six on each of tarsi III and IV,

and the presence of four ag setae increasing in length from ag1 to ag4. Empodium and claws absent on leg I, each of other legs with ciliate empodium and two claws, without empodial hooks. Both setae (pζ) and setae (tcζ) on tarsus I subequal, the former two shorter than the latter two. Femur IV divided. Aspidosoma with four pairs of setae (bo, ro, la and ex) and opisthosoma with 11 pairs (c1, c2, d1, e1, f1, f2, h1, h2, ps1, ps2 and ps3). Epimeral formula 3-1-4-2. Poroidotaxy: ia, im, ip, ih. Leg setal pattern as follows: Leg I – 9 + ω – 3 + φ + κ – 3 – 3 – 1; leg II – 7 + ω – 2 – 3 – 3 – 1; Leg III – 6 – 2 – 2 – 2 – 1; Leg IV – 6 – 2 – 1 – 1 + 1 – 0.

Remark — The presence of the seta homologous to s is either absent or vestigial and hard to distinguish. This contrasts with other genera, e.g. Pronematus or Homeopronematus André, 1980 , in which this seta is clearly visible in all stages except the larva ( Ueckermann & De Vis et al. 2024). The ventral setae on tibiae II–IV are stout compared to the other leg setae, and the dorsal seta on the telofemur IV is forked. These three characteristics might be generic but they are not clear for P. acus nor for P. augrabiensis Ueckermann & Grout, 2007 , so we refrain from citing them as a generic characteristics.