A REVIEW OF SOME GENERA OF CHEYLETID MITES (ACARI: PROSTIGMATA) WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES

About authors:

A. Fain, Institut royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgie, Rue Vautier 29, B-1000, Bruxelles, Belgium
Bochkov A. V. , Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya emb. 1, 199034 St. Petersburg, Russia. Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, 1109 Geddes Ave., Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA

Acknowledgments:

The authors express many thanks to Dr. R.D. Kime, Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique (Bruxelles, Belgium) for critically re-viewing the manuscript.We wish to thank Dr. E.J. Nieukerken, National Museum of Natural History (Leiden, the Netherlands) for the loan of the type material of Oudemans. We also thank Dr. U. Ger-son, Hebrew University (Rehovot, Israel) and Ms. Vera Osipova, Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (St. Petersburg, Russia) for providing literature necessary for this study.

For this research Dr. A.V. Bochkov was a beneficiary of a grant from the Belgian Federal Services for Scientific, Technical and Cultural Af-fairs. The preliminary studies were supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research grants 00-04^9323 and 00-04-48885.

Annotation:

Several species of cheyletid mites (Acari: Chey-letidae) presenting 16 of 32 known genera were revised. Eight new species and one new genus are described: Kenyacheylus troglodytes g.n., sp.n., Kerafrotropicalissp.n., Cheletophyes vespaesp.n., Chelacaropsis kenyensis sp.n., Hoffmannita ger-soni sp.n., Bak nadchatrami sp.n., Chelacheles algericus sp.n. and Prosocheyla ripkai sp.n. Six known species are redescribed: Cheletomorpha bakeri Lawrence, 1954, Hylopecheyla bunguran-ensis Fain, 1972, Cheletophyes vitzthumi Oude-mans, 1914, Ch. eckerti Summers et Price, 1970, Acaropsella kinshasensis Fain, 1972 and Samsina-kia carabae Ramaraju et Mohanasundram, 1999. The males of five species such as Cheletonella vespertilionis Womersley, 1941, Mexecheles vir-giniensis (Baker, 1949), Ker bakeri Zaher et Soli-man, 1967, Chelacaropsis terrestris Corpuz-Raros et Sotto, 1977, and EutogenesfraterVo\gm, 1958 as well as the female of Pavlovskicheyla philippi-саиа Corpuz-Raros, 1998 are described for the first time. Twenty-one species are synonymized and 14 species are considered as species inquirendae. Keys are provided for all studied genera.

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