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Fig. 5

From: The oldest continuous association between astigmatid mites and termites preserved in Cretaceous amber reveals the evolutionary significance of phoresy

Fig. 5

Line drawings of the schizoglyphid tritonymph Plesioglyphus lebanotermi gen. et sp. n. from Lower Barremian Lebanese amber of Mdeyrij-Hammana (A) Dorsal view of specimen 16. (B) Ventral side of specimen 15. (C) Ventral side of specimen 1, holotype. (D) Ventral side of specimen 4. (E) Dorso-lateral side of specimen 2. (F) Color codes for C-E: 1 – mite, 2 – presumably mite, 3 – mite internal structure, 4 – unknown structures, 5 – artifacts and sub-inclusions, 6 – outer borders of shadows. Abbreviations: Arrowheads indicate empodial claws. Abbreviations: ad – suckers; ω palp and tarsal solenidia; φ tibial solenidion; e – tarsal apical seta; cox – coxa; h – dorsal setae; gT – tibial seta; hT – tibial seta; vF – femoral setae; ps – pseudanal setae; g – genital setae; σ genual solenidion. Scale bars: 100 μm

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