gabelzhan

alternative gabelzahn

1. no pluralrarearachnologyThe offset and typically most distal tooth on the fixed digits of mesostigmatan mites.

   […] fixed digit of chelicera with an offset distal tooth (gabelzhan), followed by 9–10 various sized teeth, […]

   2025 January 13, Jaeseok Oh, Omid Joharchi, Seunghwan Lee, Chuleui Jung, “New species and new records of Cosmolaelaps Berlese (Acari: Laelapidae) from the Republic of Korea, with a review of the Korean species of the genus”, in Zootaxa, volume 5569, number 1, Magnolia Press, →DOI, page 61

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   […] fixed digit with 3—5 teeth, variously sized, rarely more (eight in O. leptochelae), including a subapical, laterally offset tooth (gabelzhan); […]

   2019 June 6, Frédéric Beaulieu, Edwin Javier Quintero-Gutiérrez, Dorothee Sandmann, Bernhard Klarner, Rahayu Widyastuti, Orlando Cómbita-Heredia, Stefan Scheu, “Review of the mite genus Ololaelaps (Acari, Laelapidae) and redescription of O. formidabilis Berlese”, in ZooKeys, number 853, →DOI, page 8

   No clear evidence of a ‘gabelzhan‘ (i.e., an off-set tooth at the cheliceral fixed digit hooked tip as in some mesostigmatids) was seen.

   2024 April 19, Clive E. Bowman, “Do astigmatid teeth matter: a tribological review of cheliceral chelae in co-occuring mites from UK beehives”, in Experimental and Applied Acarology, volume 92, Springer, →DOI, page 585