TAXONOMIC CONTRIBUTION TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE ORIBATID MITE GENUS PROTORIBATES (ACARI, ORIBATIDA, HAPLOZETIDAE)

About authors:

Luis S. Subías,

Complutense University, Madrid, Spain

Sergey G. Ermilov, e-mail

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

Stefan Friedrich,

Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Faculty of Biology, Biocenter LMU, PlaneggMartinsried, Germany

Acknowledgments:

The authors thank Dr. Juliane Diller and Erich Diller for kindly inviting one of us (Stefan Friedrich) to Panguana; Franz Wachtel (Grünwald, Germany) for his expertise and assistance in the field; Dr. Gerardo Lamas Müller and Dr. Diana Silva Dávila (both of Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru) for cooperation; and the Servicio Nacional Forestal y de Fauna Silvestre (SERFOR) for issuing the collection and export permits (# 007-2014-SERFOR-DGGSPFFS and # 003052-SERFOR, respectively).

The research of Sergey Ermilov was supported by the cooperative agreement No. FEWZ-2021-0004 from the Russian Ministry of Science and Higher Education.

Annotation:

A new oribatid mite subgenus, Protoribates (Perubates) subgen. n. (Oribatida, Haplozetidae), with type species Protoribates (Perubates) davidi sp. n., is proposed from the primary evergreen lowland rainforest of Amazonian Peru. It differs from the nominate genus in the presence of lamellar cusps and extra porose areas on the notogaster. A new generic diagnosis of Protoribates is provided.

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