FIRST RECORD OF THE ORIBATID MITE GENUS EPIDAMAEUS (ACARI, ORIBATIDA, DAMAEIDAE) FROM TAIWAN

About authors:

Sergey G. Ermilov, e-mail

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

Liao Jhih-Rong, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Alexey A. Gubin, X-BIO Institute, Tyumen State University, Tyumen, Russia

Acknowledgments:

We thank C. C. Ko (National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan) for supporting the present study; H. C. Lee for helping with the collection; Yushan National Park for granting permission to carry out our research. This study was funded by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR), project № 18-04-00097.

Annotation:

This article presents the first record of the oribatid mite genus Epidamaeus (Oribatida, Damaeidae) in Taiwan. A new species, Epidamaeus saviah Ermilov sp. n., is described based on the material recovered from the soil and lichens collected in Yushan National Park (Taiwan). The newly discovered species differs from Epidamaeus barbatulus (Choi, 2004) in the length and the morphology of parastigmatic apophyses and notogastral setae, as well as in the absence of ventrosejugal tubercles.

DOI: 10.21684/0132-8077-2020-28-2-115-122

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