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Habitus typical of the family. Body length of holotype: 0.88 mm; body length range of paratypes: 0.47–1.20 mm. Color in ethanol: white, no pigmentation.
Ratio head diagonal: antenna = 1:0.63. Ant I with 7–8 chaetae. Ant II with 12 chaetae. Ant III and IV fused dorsally, ventral separation marked. Sensory organ of Ant III with two small club-shaped sensilla, the mid-ventral one with a bilobed apex; two longer and subcylindrical guard sensilla; ventral microsensillum present (Figs 42–43). Ant IV with simple apical bulb and five sensilla; dorsolateral microsensillum present; subapical organite round; about 30 ventral chaetae (Figs 42–43).
Without eyes. PAO bearing 10–12 vesicles disposed as an elongated rosette (Fig. 44). Maxilla quadrangular with 6–7 teeth (Fig. 45). Labral formula: 2/2334. Labium typical of Brachystomella, with one papillated chaetae (L) and four proximal chaetae (Fig. 46).
Head chaetotaxy as in Fig. 47. Chaetae a0 absent; Oc chaetae 3+3. Dorsal chaetotaxy composed of slightly serrated chaetae and longer sensilla (Fig. 48); Abd V with some longer chaetae, subequal to sensilla, and Abd VI with 4+4 serrated chaetae with a tendency to have bent tips (Fig. 49). Th I with 2+2 chaetae; sensillar formula by half tergum: 022/211110. All dorsal and lateral chaetae are slightly serrated.
Chaetotaxy of legs I–III as follows: Scx I – 1, 2, 2; Scx II – 0, 2, 2; Cx – 3, 6, 7; Tr – 5, 5, 5; Fe – 12, 12?, 10; Tita – 18, 18, 17. Tenent hair on tibiotarsi acuminated; unguis of legs I and II with one extremely minute median inner tooth; tooth not seen on unguis of leg III (Fig. 50). Ventral tube with 3+3 chaetae. Tenaculum small with 2 teeth on each ramus. Furca reduced to two small globular dens with 3–4 chaetae on each side and without mucro (Fig. 51). Abd VI with 4+4 serrated chaetae with bent tips, of which 2+2 are longer than others (25μm to 20μm), and one unpaired smooth chaetae on dorsal side (Fig. 52). Each anal valve with 12 chaetae and 2 hr chaetae; Abd VI with 3+3 smooth chaetae on ventral side (Fig. 53). Female and male genital plate as in Figs 54 and 55, respectively.
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- Gabriel C. Queiroz, Maria Cleide de Mendonça
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- Queiroz G, Mendonça M (2013) New species of Brachystomellidae and characterization of Micronella porcus (Denis, 1933) from Brazil ZooKeys 316: 81–98
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- Gabriel C. Queiroz
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- Maria Cleide de Mendonça