434 Acarology 



Genus: 



Epactozetes Grandjean, 1930 



Type. Epactozetes imitator Grandjean, 1930 



Rejerence: 



Grandjean, F. 1936. Les Oribates de Jean Frederic Hermann et de son 

 Pere. Ann. Soc. Ent. de France 105:27-110. 



Protoplophoridae Jacot, 1923 



Figure 372 



Diagnosis: These mites are capable of closing up like an armadillo, 

 protecting the mouth parts and legs. When the mite is closed, only 

 the anal aperture is visible and the genital opening, legs, and gnatho- 

 soma are covered by the aspis. The body proper is divided into four 



Figure 372 Aedoplophora glomerata Grandjean. Lateral view of female; lateral 

 view of contracted female; detail of tarsus i; anterior view of contracted female. 

 (After Grandjean 1932) 



parts: the anterior dorsal or pronotaspis; the dorsal posterior plate or 

 metanotaspis or pygidium; and two lateral, symmetrical plates — the 

 pleuraspis — which cover a large part of the venter of the hysterosoma. 

 The pygidium is movable and can sink entirely into the pronotaspis 

 or can be fully withdrawn. Genital plates are immediately behind the 

 coxae IV ; the anal plates are directly behind the genital plates and 

 between the pleuraspis. 



