FIRST RECORD OF THE MITE GENUS RACKIA (ACARI: HETEROSTIGMATINA: NEOPYGMEPHORIDAE) FROM ARCTIC RUSSIA WITH DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES

About authors:

Alexander A. Khaustov,  e-mail

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

Olga L. Makarova,

Severtsov Institute for Problems of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Annotation:

The genus Rackia Mahunka, 1975 (Acari: Pygmephoroidea: Neopygmephoridae) is recorded from Russia for the first time. A new species, Rackia curculionoides sp. n. is described from soil of the arctic Vaigach Island, the north of Eastern Siberia. A key to species of the genus Rackia is provided. It was suggested that the elongated gnathosomal capsule in Rackia curculionoides sp. n. and other species of Rackia is a result of homoplasy.

Bibliography:

Grandjean, F. 1944. Observations sur les Acariens de
la famille des Stigmaeidae. Archives des Sciences
physiques et naturelles, 26: 103–131.

Grandjean, F. 1947. L’origine pileuse des mors et la
chaetotaxie de la mandibule chez les Acariens
actinochitineux. Comptes rendus des séances de
l’Academie des Sciences, 224: 1251–1254.

Kaliszewski, M., Athias-Binche, F. and Lindquist, E.E.
1995. Parasitism and parasitoidism in Tarsonemina
(Acari: Heterostigmata) and evolutionary
considerations. Advances in Parasitology, 35:
335–367.

Khaustov, A.A. 2004. [Mites of the family Neopygmephoridae
Cross, 1965 stat. n. and their position in
Heterostigmata]. In: Y.S. Balashov (Ed.). VIII Russian
Acarological Conference, St.-Petersburg.
Zoological Institute of RAS, St.-Petersburg, p. 137.
[in Russian]

Khaustov, A.A. 2008. Mites of the family Scutacaridae
of Eastern Palaearctic. Akademperiodyka, Kiev,
291 pp.

Khaustov, A.A. and Trach, V.A. 2012. A new genus and
species of the family Neopygmephoridae (Acari:
Heterostigmata: Pygmephoroidea) associated with
Geotrupes spiniger (Coleoptera: Geotrupidae)
from Ukraine. Acarina, 20: 3–7.

Khaustov, A.A. and Trach, V.A. 2014. Mites of the
superfamily Pygmephoroidea (Acari: Heterostigmata:
Neopygmephoridae, Pygmephoridae) associated
with Trox cadaverinus (Coleoptera:
Trogidae) from the Far East of Russia, with description
of a new genus and two new species.
Zootaxa, 3754: 86–96.

Lindquist, E.E. 1986. The world genera of Tarsonemidae
(Acari: Heterostigmata): a morphological,
phylogenetic, and systematic revision, with a reclassification
of family-group taxa in the Heterostigmata.
Memoirs of Entomological Society of
Canada, 136: 1–517.

Mahunka, S. 1970. Considerations on the systematics
of the Tarsonemina and the description of new
European taxa (Acari: Trombidiformes). Acta
Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae,
16: 137–174.

Mahunka, S. 1975. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Tarsonemiden
(Acari) von Kleinsäugernestern aus der
Umgebung von Ljubljana (Jugoslawien). Parasitologia
Hungarica, 8: 75–83.

Sasa, M. 1961. New mites of the genus Pygmephorus
from small mammals in Japan (Acarina: Pyemotidae).
Japanese Journal of Experimental Medicine,
31: 191–208.

Zhang, Z.-Q., Fan, Q.-H., Pesic, V., Smit, H., Bochkov,
A.V., Khaustov, A.A., Baker, A., Wohltmann, A.,
Wen, T.-H., Amrine, J.W., Beron, P., Lin, J.-Z.,
Gabrys, G. and Husband, R. 2011. Order Trombidiformes
Reuter, 1909. In: Zhang, Z-Q. (ed.)
Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level
classification and survey
of taxonomic richness.
Zootaxa, 3148: 129–138.