Aberoptus championus

Taxobox
name = "Aberoptus championus"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
subphylum = Chelicerata
classis = Arachnida
subclassis = Acari
superordo = Acariformes

ordo = Prostigmata
subordo = Eupodina
superfamilia = Eriophyoidea
genus = "Aberoptus"
species = "A. championus"
binomial = "Aberoptus championus"
binomial_authority = Huang, 2005

"Aberoptus championus" is a species of mite belonging to the family Eriophyidae. It is currently only known from females collected from underneath the leaves of "Bauhinia championii" in central Taiwan.

This is a virtually microscopic animal, with a length of only 120 μm. It is flattened and fusiform in shape. It can be distinguished from its closest congener, "Aberoptus platessoides", by the lack of setae on the tibiae of the first pair of legs.

References

*cite journal |quotes=no |url=http://www.entsoc.org.tw/chinese/publication/journal/pdf/t2502/25-2-07.pdf |title=Eriophyoid mites of Taiwan: Description of one new species of Aberoptinae from Hueysuen (Acari:Eriophyoidea:Eriophyidae) |journal=Formosan Entomologist |volume=25 |year=2005 |author=Kun-Wei Huang |pages=127–130 |format=dead link|date=June 2008 – ^{[http://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=author%3A+intitle%3AEriophyoid+mites+of+Taiwan%3A+Description+of+one+new+species+of+Aberoptinae+from+Hueysuen+%28Acari%3AEriophyoidea%3AEriophyidae%29&as_publication=%5B%5BFormosan+Entomologist%5D%5D&as_ylo=2005&as_yhi=2005&btnG=Search Scholar search]}