Abstract
The sand-mite genus Liuella Wang & Bai, 1992 was erected in the tribe Trombiculini, subfamily Trombiculinae, family Trombiculidae. It was characterized by the rounded shield-shaped peniscutum (PSc) without an anteromedian projection (A=-), with 1AM and 2ALs; 2PLs off the scutum (Fig. 1); fSP=7.7.7; fcx=1.2.1; sternal setae numerous, arranged in three rows; with as many as 10 ventral humeral setae on either side, and SIF=4Bs-N-3-1000.0000. The genus was defined according to a single specimen, the holotype of Liuella virtus Wang & Bai, 1992. The slide was deposited in the Entomological Museum of the Institute of Zoology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The validity of this genus is in question because the generic diagnosis is identical to that of Straelensia Vercammen-Grandjean & Kolebinova, 1968 of the subfamily Apoloniinae (Leeuwenhoekiidae), except that an anteromedian projection or “nasus” is present in Straelensia.
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