FIGURE 1 in Catalogue of the free-living and arthropod-associated Laelapidae Canestrini (Acari: Mesostigmata), with revised generic concepts and a key to genera

FIGURE 1. General morphology of female Laelapidae (Gaeolaelaps Evans & Till; modified from Beaulieu, 2009 and Kazemi et al., 2014). A, dorsal idiosoma; B, ventral idiosoma (as: anal shield; cr: cribrum; ep: endopodal plate; es: epigynal shield; ex: exopodal plate; mp: metapodal plates; pd: parapodal plate; pa: para-anal seta; po: post-anal seta; pp: peritrematal plate; ps: presternal plate; pt: peritreme; ss: sternal shield; st: stigma; ts: tritosternum); C, palp (pt: palp trochanter; tc: tarsal claw; tibial and tarsal setae not shown); D, chelicera (al: antiaxial lyrifissure; ap: arthrodial process; dl: dorsal lyrifissure; ds: dorsal seta; fd: fixed digit; md: movable digit; pd: pilus dentilis); E, ventral gnathosoma (cc: corniculus; ds: deutosternum; h1–h3: hypostomal setae; im: internal malae; lb: labrum; pc: palp coxal seta); F, epistome. Lyrifissures (poroids) shown in blue and gland pores (solenostomes) in red. Notation: idiosomal setae - Lindquist & Evans (1965) adapted by Evans & Till (1965, 1966) and Lindquist (1994); palp setae - Evans (1963b); idiosomal lyrifissures and gland pores - Athias-Henriot (1971, 1975), as interpreted by Kazemi et al. (2014). Scale bars = 100 μm for idiosoma, 50 μm for other structures.