Meanings
- not comparableRelating to or displaying hypertrichy.
The idiosomatic chaetotaxy is usually hypertrichous.
1992, Evans, Gwilym O. (Gwilym Owen), Principles of acarology, page 4122 more examples
Promegistus armstrongi Womersley is the sole member of the Promegistidae. Womersley (1958) originally placed this unusual mite in the Paramegistidae, which it resembles in the smooth dorsum fringed with setae, fragmented sternal shield and hypertrichous ventrianal shield.
1912, Hamlyn-Harris, Ronald, Queensland Museum, Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, page 255Apart from the markedly hypertrichous genera of the families Penthaleidae and Strandtmanniidae, the homologues of opisthosomal structures of Caleupodes can be identified in the other eupodoid genera (Figs 15-18).
1987, A S Baker, Caleupodes, a new genus of eupodoid mite (Acari: Acariformes) showing primary opisthosomal segmentation, pages 112-113
Origin
By surface analysis, hypertrichy + -ous.
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