Parapronematus acaciae Baker, 1965

De VisK, Raf M. J., K, José Dantas Araujo Lacerda, de MoraesK, Gilberto J. & Ueckermann K, Edward A., 2025, Pronematinae (Trombidiformes: Iolinidae) from Brazil, with original and complementary descriptions of taxa as well as with a reappraisal of the subfamily and of Parapronematus, Acarologia 65 (2), pp. 331-372 : 351-352

Parapronematus acaciae Baker, 1965

Parapronematus acaciae Baker, 1965: 116 .

Parapronematus acacia, Gupta 2002: 121 .

The original description of this species is extremely basic, with no measurements or details in the illustration. In the complementary description of Gupta (2002), he used part of the original description and all drawings of the original description, with no new measurements.

The type specimens could not be studied because they could not be loaned; hence, in this publication, the length of setae of the dorsal part of opisthosoma and of tarsus I were estimated

( Table 2) based on the illustrations provided in the original description.

We found the following inconsistencies between the description and the illustrations: tarsus

III is depicted with five setae, instead of six in the description of the genus. Also, according to the original description, “The forked seta of femur IV is at least twice as long as the width of the segment”, but in the illustration, the length of the seta and the width of the segment are similar. For the moment, we retain the genus description with six setae on tarsus III and the estimated setal lengths as distinguishing characteristics and we consider the relative length of the dorsal setae of femora III and IV to the width of the segment as an unreliable characteristic.

However, we are convinced that the species needs a redescription, especially for being the type of the genus.

As distinguishing characters, we retain: f1 49, h1 49 and h2 68, which are clearly longer than in P. camelia , P. formosanus , P. murshidabadensis and P. connarus n. sp. Eupathidia long,

tc″ζ /tarsus I≈ 3.0 but seta p″ζ 34 is shorter than in P. connarus n. sp. (37.5–47.3 µm), tarsus

III with six and tarsus IV with five setae, according to the text of the original description of the genus.