FIGURE 3. Miracarus grootaerti n in Description of a new species of cave mite, Miracarus grootaerti, and comparison with M. abeloosi, Lions, 1978 (Acari, Oribatida)

FIGURE 3. Miracarus grootaerti n. sp., female. (a) body, right side, partial, ventral. Plane of symmetry materialized by a line with dots and dashes. Genital valves removed. Leg I omitted. Femora II (FII) and III (FIII), and trochanter IV (RIV) not totally seen (for example, in FIII, only the stalk is depicted adaxially). Acetabula not represented except in the epimeron 2 where a portion of the cotyloid wall p.cot 2 is shown. The laterorostral carina lr as well as the carinae tu2 and tu3 (partially hatched) of the tutorium are not entirely seen. The anterior parietal carina kp is shown dorsally to its junction with the carina tu3 and ventrally to this junction where it is curved and reaches lr. The associated carina dorsally to tu3 is seen. Line proximal to bv'' in FII and line dorsal to the free border of the acetabular tectum II are lines of apparent outline. Muscle impressions on the epimera are delimited by a dotted line. The base of the half apodeme 2 ap.2 and of the sejugal half apodeme ap.sj, and the ventral tendinous apophysis β are hatched. 3, 9, as in Fig. 2a. Δ', anterior articular tooth at the base of the trochanter II. btg.a, anterior border of the circumgenital opening. pd I, pd II, free border of the pedotecta I and II, respectively. (b) left half sejugal apodeme seen in anterior view in a young animal, dorso-abaxial part omitted. Hatching covers an optical section of the tegument: in the pleural region, passing slightly anterior to the sejugal stigma (st), cut crosswise; and, in the ventral region, going through the sejugal border band (bo.sj) and the anterior part of the pedotectum II (pd II), both cut lengthwise. The free border of the rest of the pedotectum II is partially delineated. The proximal part of the epimeral seta 3c is shown by transparency through the cuticle of the pedotectum. (c) left pedipalp tarsus, partial, in dorsal projection. The plane of symmetry of the body is to the left. Solenidion ω totally hatched and optical, longitudinal section of the tegument of the segment incompletely hatched on the left and right sides (tegument not represented anteriorly). Only the dorsodistal setae are seen, i.e. the anteroculminal seta acmζ, the posterolateral seta lt'', and the posterior ultimal eupathidium ul''ζ.