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English
Etymology
By surface analysis, hypertrichy + -ous.
Adjective
hypertrichous (not comparable)
- Relating to or displaying hypertrichy.
1912, Hamlyn-Harris, Ronald, Queensland Museum, Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, page 255: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.
1992, Evans, Gwilym O. (Gwilym Owen), Principles of acarology, page 412:The idiosomatic chaetotaxy is usually hypertrichous.
1987, A S Baker, Caleupodes, a new genus of eupodoid mite (Acari: Acariformes) showing primary opisthosomal segmentation, pages 112-113:Apart 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).