BEMBIDIACARIDAE, A NEW FAMILY OF MITES (ACARI: HETEROSTIGMATA) ASSOCIATED WITH СARABID BEETLES OF THE GENUS BEMBIDION (COLEOPTERA: CARABIDAE)

About author:

Alexander A. Khaustov,  e-mail

X-BIO Institute, Tyumen State University, Tyumen, Russia

Acknowledgments:

I am grateful to Dr. M .M. Eidelberg, Crime-an Institute of Ecology and Projecting, for provid-ing me with a collection of mites associated with carabid beetles. Also the author wish to express his deep gratitude to Drs. W.L.Magowski, A.Mickie-wicz University, Poznan, Poland, and E.E.Lindquist, Center for Land & Biological Research Agriculture, Canada, Ottawa, for their notes on morphology and systematics of mites of the new family.

Annotation:

A new family of heterostigmatic mites, Bem-bidiacaridae, is described on the basis of Bembid-iacarus eidelbergi, gen. et sp. nov. The adult females of this species are found to be foretic on adult carabid beetles Bembidion saxatile Gyll. from Crimea.

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Lindquist E.E., Kaliszewski M., Rack G . 1990. Athy-reacaridae, a new family of mites (Acari: Heter - ostigmata) associated with scarabeid beetles of the genus Neoathyreus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) // Acarologia. T.31. Fase.2. P.161-176.