FIGURE 5. Podapolipus gryllacridi n in A new species of Podapolipus (Acari: Heterostigmata: Podapolipidae) from an Australian gryllacridid cricket (Orthoptera), with keys to orthopteran-associated species of the genus

FIGURE 5. Podapolipus gryllacridi n. sp., female. Layered polarized (A–E) and DIC (F–K) micrographs. A, freshly mounted adult female (glycerol)-note ovary with ca 100 progeny; B, detail of cheliceral stylets in normal position (tips broken); C–D, engorged larval female with pharate adult female: C, detail of cheliceral stylets after artificial splaying, note glabrous tips; D, position of adult female in her larval skin and her dorsal sclerites; E, adult female leg I; F–K, details of adult female prosoma at subsequent groups of focal planes. Abbreviations: ap, dorsomedian apodeme; bd, branching ducts of podocephalic canal system; cl, claw, modified from subunguinal seta s into terminal hook-like spine; Fe, femur; Ge, genu; gn, gnathosoma; l′Fe, dorsal seta of leg femur, homologous to l′ of larva; lev, lever of cheliceral stylet; n, notch; ov, ovary with developing progeny; pha, pharynx; plp, palp; prod, prodorsal shield; sh2, sh3, dorsal shields; sst, stylostome fragments; st, cheliceral stylet; stg, stigma; Ti-Ta, tibiotarsus; Tr, trochanter; tra, trachea; tu, tubules connected to dorsomedial apodeme.