TWO NEW SPECIES AND A NEW RECORD OF SPATULAPHORUS (ACARI: PYGMEPHORIDAE) PHORETIC ON SCARAB BEETLES (COLEOPTERA: SCARABAEIDAE) FROM FRENCH GUIANA

About authors:

Alexander A. Khaustov,  e-mail

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

Andrey V. Frolov, Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Acknowledgments:

We are thankful to Olivier Montreuil (National Museum of Natural History, Paris, France) who provided the host beetles for examination. This research was supported by the cooperative agreement No. FEWZ-2021-0004, funded by the Russian Ministry of Science and Higher Education. The study of the junior author was performed in the framework of the Russian State Research Project No. АААА-А19-119020690101-6. 

Annotation:

Two new species, Spatulaphorus dignus sp. n. and S. porosus sp. n. (Acari: Pygmephoridae), collected from scarab beetles Oxysternon durantoni and Coprophanaeus jasius, respectively, are described from French Guiana. Spatulaphorus brasiliensis Khaustov and Frolov, collected from the beetle Dichotomius borreus, is recorded from French Guiana for the first time. A key to the world species of the genus Spatulaphorus is also provided

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