ON THE SYSTEMATICS OF THE GENUS EUTONELLAKUDRYASHOVA,1988 (ACARI: TROMBICULIDAE)

About author:

Alexandr A. Stekolnikov,

 Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia
e-mail: Alexandr.Stekolnikov@zin.ru

Acknowledgments:

The author wishes to express the appreciation to Dr. N.I. Kudryashova (ZMMU) for her kind help when he was studying the Moscow University Museum of Zoology collections. The author thanks Prof., Dr. Hikmet Ozbek, Drs. Levent Gultekin and Goksel Toslti (Atatiirk University, Erzurum, Tur-key) for the assistance with the collection trip to Turkey. The author is grateful to his expedition companions, Drs. B.M. Kataev and A.Y. Solo-dovnikov (ZISP). The identifications of the hosts were made by Drs. G.I. Baranova and F.N. Goleni-shchev (ZISP). The study was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (Grant "Sci-entific Schools" — "The School of E.N. Pav-lovsky"), the International Soros Science Educa-tional Program (Grant No. a97-954), the Adminis-tration of St.Petersburg, the Ministry of Education of Russia and the Russian Academy of Sciences (Grant No. M97-2.4K-15).

Annotation:

A new species, Eutonella kudryashovae sp. n., is described from the North-Eastern Turkey. Five species formerly included into the genus Neotrom-bicula Hirst, 1925 are transferred to the genus Eutonella. One species, Neotrombicula iranensis Goff et Saboori, 1998, is synonymized with Eu-tonella blanfordi (Kudryashova, 1977) comb. n. Eutonella crinita (Schluger, 1966) is recorded in Turkey for the first time. The ecogeographical variability is revealed in the latter species: the specimens from high-mountain localities show greater values of the lengths of setae.

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