THREE NEW SPECIES OF MITE FAMILY PYGMEPHORIDAE (ACARI: HETEROSTIGMATA) ASSOCIATED WITH SCARAB BEETLES (COLEOPTERA: SCARABAEIDAE) FROM UKRAINE

About author:

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

Acknowledgments:

I thank Prof. V.D. Sevastianov, Odessa Na-tional University, Ukraine for providing me with the paratypes of Pygmephorellus artemjevi; Dr. V.E. Sklyar, Poltava, Ukraine for the materials of mites from dung beetles; Dr. A.M. Camerik, Re-public of South Africa, for reviewing the manu-script and helpful suggestions.

Annotation:

Three new species of mites: Pygmephorellus punctatus sp. п., Spatulaphorus geotruporum sp. п., and S. vladimiri sp. n. (Acari: Pygmephoridae) are described from the dung beetle Geotrupes ster-corarius (L.) (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) from Ukraine. Pecliculaster geotrupi Mahunka, 1970 is transferred to the genus Spatulaphorus Rack, 1993.

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