THREE NEW SPECIES OF THE PREDACEOUS CHEYLETIDAE (ACARI: PROSTIGMATA) PHORETIC ON INSECTS

About authors:

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

Pavel B. Klimov,

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

Acknowledgments:

We thank Dra. Tila Perez (UNAM) and Dr. Brian V. Brown (LACM) who provided access to the insect specimens. This research was supported bygrants from USDA (CSREES #2002–35302– 12654) and NSF DEB–0118766 (PEET) to Prof. Barry M. OConnor (UMMZ).

Annotation:

Three new species of the family Cheyletidae (Acari: Prostigmata) obligatory phoretic on insects are described, Samsinakia tilae sp.n. from a tene-brionid beetle Blastinus sp. (Mexico), Cheleto-phyes occisor sp.n. and Ch. decorus sp.n. ex car-penter bees Xylocopa aruana (Papua New Guinea) and X. tranquebarica (Southeast Asia), respective-ly. The genus Samsinakia spp. in is recorded for the first time for the New World.

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