MICHAELOPUS LONGIRETINALIS SP. NOV. (ACARI, ACARIDAE), A NEW SPECIES OF ACAROID MITE ASSOCIATED WITH BEETLE ONTHOPHAGUS LENZI (COLEOPTERA, SCARABAEIDAE) FROM SOUTH KOREA

About author:

Pavel B. Klimov,

University of Michigan, Museum of Zoology, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
e-mail: pklimov@purdue.edu

Acknowledgments:

I wish to express my thanks to Drs. A. Egorov (I BP) for the opportunity to work with his extensive materials and to G . Lafer (IBP) for the identifica-tion of coleopteran host.

Annotation:

A new species, Michaelopus longiretinalis sp. n. (Acari, Acaridae), phoretic on the beetle Onthophagus lenzi from South Korea is described. The species Michaelopus polezhaevi (Zakhvatkin, 1953) comb. n. is transferred from the genus Moniesiella Berlese, 1897.

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