TWO SPECIES OF ORIBATID MITES OF THE GENUS BANKSINOMA (ACARI: ORIBATIDA: BANKSINOMIDAE) FROM MONGOLIA

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Acknowledgments:

I would like to express my sincere thanks to Dr. Andrei V. Tolstikov, Tyumen State University, Tyumen, and Dr. Olga V. Voltzit, Moscow Lo-monosov State University, Moscow, for their crit-ical reviewing of the manuscript with useful com-ments. Thanks also due to Prof. Bella R. Strigano-va, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, for her valuable discussion and encouragement. The present re-search was partly supported by the Asia Research Center at the National University of Mongolia, and the Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies.

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The present work deals with two species of oribatid mites of the genus Banksinoma Oudemans, 1930 from Mongolia. A new species, Banksinoma orbiculata sp. n. is described from the steppe habitats in Eastern Mongolia. In addition, supplementary description of a little known species, Banksinoma exobothridialis Bayartogtokh, 1997, collected from the nest of the ant species, Formica rufa, located in the mountain steppe and temperate taiga forest habitats in Central Mongolia is given. Data on ecology and distribution of each species of oribatids are given.

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