A NEW SPECIES OF CTENOBELBA (ACARI: ORIBATIDA: CTENOBELBIDAE) FROM THE CAUCASUS REGION

About authors:

Murvanidze M., Maka Murvanidze, Georgia LEPL Institute of Zoology, Chavchavadze av. 31, 0179 Tbilisi, Georgia

Weigmann G., Gerd Weigmann, Institute of Zoology, Koenigin-Luise-Str. 1–3, 14195 Berlin, Germany

Acknowledgments:

M. Murvanidze thanks to the German Aca-demic Exchange Service (DAAD) for giving an opportunity to conduct the researches in Germany. She also expresses her gratitude to Dr. E. Kvavadze for sampling of the material.We thank Prof. Dr. R. Norton vor reviewing of the manuscript

Annotation:

A new species, Ctenobelba heterosetosa sp. п., is described based on specimens from Ajara in the subtropical region of Western Georgia, collected from soil in a Castanea forest. The species differs from all described Ctenobelba species world-wide by the heteromorphic notogastral setae, which are broadened and phylliform in the anterior and centrodorsal part, strongly bacilliform in the posterior submarginal /?-row, thin and fine in the posterior marginal p-row. The main characters of the new species are compared with those other Ctenobelba species with more or less phylliform notogastral setation.

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