PELORIBATES ROYNORTONI (ACARI, ORIBATIDA, HAPLOZETIDAE), A NEW SPECIES OF ORIBATID MITES FROM THE USA

About authors:

Sergey G. Ermilov, e-mail

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

Umukusum Ya. Shtanchaeva,

Complutense University, Madrid, Spain 

Luis S. Subías,

Complutense University, Madrid, Spain

Annotation:

A new species of the genus Peloribates (Oribatida, Haplozetidae) is described from Louisiana, USA. Peloribates roynortoni Ermilov, Shtanchaeva et Subías sp.n. is tentatively included in the subgenus Peloribates (Peloribatodes). The new species differs from Peloribates (Peloribatodes) incompatibilis Mahunka, 2011 by the presence of prolamellae, macrofoveolate prodorsum, notogaster and anogenital region as well as striate epimeres.

DOI: 10.21684/0132-8077-2019-27-1-3-9

Bibliography:

Beck, L. 1964. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der neotropischen Oribatidenfauna 4. Haplozetes und Peloribates (Arach., Acari). Senckenbergiana Biologica, 45 (2): 161–183.

Berlese, A. 1908. Elenco di generi e specie nuovi di Acari. Redia, 5: 1–15.

Ermilov, S.G. and Anichkin, A.E. 2014. Taxonomic study of oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) of Bi Dup—Nui Ba National Park (southern Vietnam). Zootaxa, 3834 (1): 1–86.

Mahunka, S. 2011. New and little known oribatid mites from Madagascar (Acari: Oribatida), III. Opuscula Zoologica Budapest, 42 (1): 43–66.

Marshall, V.G., Reeves, R.M. and Norton, R.A. 1987. Catalogue of the Oribatida (Acari) of Continental United States and Canada. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada, 139: 1–418.

Norton, R.A. 1977. A review of F. Grandjean’s system of leg chaetotaxy in the Oribatei (Acari) and its application to the family Damaeidae. In: D.L. Dindal (Ed.). Biology of oribatid mites. Syracuse, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, pp. 33–61.

Norton, R.A. and Behan-Pelletier, V.M. 2009. Suborder Oribatida. Chapter 15. In: G.W. Krantz and D.E. Walter (Eds.). A Manual of Acarology. Lubbock, Texas Tech University Press, pp. 430–564.

Subías, L.S. 2019. Listado sistemático, sinonímico y biogeográfico de los ácaros oribátidos (Acariformes: Oribatida) del mundo (excepto fósiles). Online version accessed in March 2019, 536 pp. http://bba.bioucm.es/cont/docs/RO_1.pdf

Travé, J. and Vachon, M. 1975. François Grandjean. 1882–1975 (Notice biographique et bibliographique). Acarologia, 17 (1): 1–19.