ON THE DAMAEID MITE FAUNA (ACARIFORMES: ORIBATEI: DAMAEIDAE) OF CENTRAL ASIA. GENUS BELBA HEYDEN, 1826. II. DESCRIPTION OF TWO NEW SPECIES

About author:

Andrei V. Tolstikov,

X-BIO Institute, Tyumen State University, Tyumen, Russia; e-mail: a.v.tolstikov@utmn.ru

Acknowledgments:

The author thanks Prof. Dr. R.A.Norton (S.U.N.Y. College of Environ-mental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, USA), and Dr.A. D. Petrova-Nikitina (M.S.U. Department of Entomology, Moscow) for very helpful discussions; Prof.Dr.D.A.Krivolutsky (Institute for Problems of Ecology and Evolution, Moscow), Dr.L.G.Grishina (Institute for Animal Systematics and Ecology, Novosibirsk), and Dr. A. A. Lyashchev (Tyumen Agricultural Academy, Tyumen), for the opportunity to work with the collections.

Partially the research has been supported by the grant "Taxonomy of insects and mites" (The Program "Universities of Russia").

Annotation:

The paper continues discussion on the Central Asian damaied mite fauna. Two new species B. flammeisetosa sp.n. and B. sarvari sp.n. are described from southern Uzbekistan and Tadjikistan.