NEW SPECIES AND OCCURRENCES OF UROPODINA MITES (MESOSTIGMATA) FROM BRAZILIAN CAVES

About authors:

Pedro H. S. Conceição,

Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Almir R. Pepato,

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Departamento de Zoologia, Laboratório de Sistemática e Evolução de Ácaros Acariformes, Pampulha, Belo Horizonte—MG, Brazil; X-BIO Institute, Tyumen State University, Tyumen, Russia

Acknowledgments:

The authors thank the company Carste Ciência e Meio Ambiente for handling the specimens used in this description. The work was supported by the mining company AngloAmerican. Special thanks to Lorena Oliveira Pires (Environmental Analyst) and Ligia M. S. Moreira for making the material available.

The writing of this manuscript was possible due to the support offered to ARP as a postdoc at Tyumen State University, Russia, and to PHSC by ADESITA (contract No. 04/2016—Agência de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social de Itabirito). Special thanks go to Dr. Gilberto José de Moraes (Universidade de São Paulo), who kindly hosted PHSC at Escola Superior de Agricultura “Luiz de Queiroz”.

We also thank Dr. Hans Klompen (Ohio State University) for useful tips on specimen identification, and Dr. Leopoldo Ferreira de Oliveira Bernardi for kindly sharing one of his specimens and for his remarkable enthusiasm regarding cave dwelling mites. We are also grateful to Dr. María L. Moraza (Universidad de Navarra) for her comments on an earlier draft of this manuscript.

Annotation:

A new species belonging to the genus Uroseius Berlese, 1888 (Trachytidae, Mesostigmata) is described based on the morphological characters of three females and one male collected from caves in Minas Gerais State, Brazil. The new species differs from other Neotropical species in having two shapes of idiosomatic ventral and dorsal setae, a character shared with Palearctic species. New occurrences of Oplitis apicalis Lopes, Oliveira, Delabie and Klompen, 2015 are also reported.

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