NEW DAMAEID MITES (ACARI: ORIBATIDA: DAMAEIDAE) FROM EASTERN MONGOLIA

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Acknowledgments:

I would like to express my sincere gratitude to the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst for giving an opportunity to carry out the research in Germany. Thanks also due to Prof. Gerd Weigmann, Free University Berlin, Germany for his encour-agement and valuable discussion, and to Dr. A.V.

Annotation:

Two new species of oribatid mites belonging to the genus Epidamaeus are described from the eastern part of Mongolia. The first new species, Epidamaeus nortoni sp. n. can be readily distin-guished form all known species of Epidamaeus by the very wide, but short notogastral setae, the presence of neotrichous setae on epimeral region II (four setae instead of one seta on each side), the very long epimeral and ano-genital setae, and the short sensilla. The second new species, Epidamae-us microtuberculatus sp. n. is distinguishable from other species of Epidamaeus by the very thin and relatively short notogastral setae, the thin and flag-ellate sensilla, the absence of the epimeral tubercles E2a and E2p, and the presence of conspicuously developed small tubercles at the bases of epimeral setae 1 and 2 series, 3a, 3b and 4c.

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