Description of eleven new species of phytoseiid mites (Acari: Mesostigmata) from Meghalaya state, north eastern India Author Kar, Anamika 0000-0001-5318-8308 Department of Agricultural Entomology, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Mohanpur- 741252, Nadia, West Bengal, India. & anamika _ kar 7 @ rediffmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 5318 - 8308 anamika_kar7@rediffmail.com Author Karmakar, Krishna 0000-0002-5582-3560 Department of Agricultural Entomology, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Mohanpur- 741252, Nadia, West Bengal, India. & kkbckv 64 @ gmail. com; karmakar. krishna @ bckv. edu. in; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 5582 - 3560 kkbckv64@gmail.com text Zootaxa 2021 2021-11-17 5068 3 301 354 journal article 3480 10.11646/zootaxa.5068.3.1 5a33d36a-0067-4d99-8dd4-a7a13e50f87b 1175-5326 5706882 13A38BE1-F138-4F8E-936E-F1DAF09EC01B

TABLE 7. Diagnostic characters in Okiseius unisetatus sp. nov. and related species. Sources of measurement: Original paper; Ehara, 1967b, Schicha, 1987; Liang & Ke, 1982; Gupta, 1986 & 2003; ‘–’: not available.

Character	O. unisetatus	O. subtropicus	O. merenoi	O. eharai	O. himalayana	O. sikkimensis	O. yazuliensis
j1	24–26	20	19–22	30	10	25	22
j3	20–23	21	19–20	37	23	45	34
j4	15–17	14	7–9	16	16	45	11–12
j5	15–17	16	10–11	15	16	5	11–12
j6	25–27	27	18–22	22	33	9	23
J5	5–7	5	5–6	–	7	5	7
z2	24–26	24	23–24	45	27	36	29
z4	24–26	26	24–27	50	34	45	34
z5	18–20	20	14–15	21	20	6	14
Z1	31–33	33	26	62	40	47	38
Z4	46–49	45	42–43	74	50	65	40
Z5	46–48	45	42–44	76	47	83	45
s4	27–29	30	24–27	57	38	45	40
S2	35–38	37	32–34	71	40	56	45
S5	18–21	16	7–8	20	16	18	16
r3	24–26	25	24	41	27	36	33
R1	25–28	25	19–20	47	27	22	22
Serration of dorsal setae	All serrated	All serrated except J5, j4, j5, and S5 with 1–2 notches	All serrated except J5 and S5 smooth	j4, j5, j6, J5, z5 smooth; S5 with 1–2 notches	All serrated except J5	All serrated except j4, j5, J5 & z5	All serrated except j4, j5, J5, z5 & S5
Teeth on FD	6	3	2	6	3	–	–
Teeth on MD	1	1	1	2	1	–	–
SgeIV + rod like setae	11 + 3	Nil	Nil	Nil	–	25 + 2	7
StiIV + rod like setae	16 + 2	Nil	Nil	Nil	–	21 + 3	7
StIV + rod like setae	19 + 1	15	15	31	16	45 + 1	23
Tip of macrosetae	rod like	rod like	rod like	Pointed	rod like	Spatulate	rod like
Number of metapo- dal shield	Single, short in- curved	Single, longer than ventrianal shield	Two pair	Single, almost as long as ventrianal shield	Single	Single	Single
Distance between ventrianal pore	18	40	–	39	–	–	–
JV5	32, serrated	18, serrated	Serrated	47, serrated	Serrated	Serrated	–
Shape of spermath- eca	Pocular cervix with nodular or ‘c’ shaped atrium	Pocular cervix with ‘c’ shaped atrium	Pocular cervix with nodular or ‘c’ shaped atrium	short fundibular cervix with large atrium	Bowl shaped	Disc shaped	Pocular shaped