INITIAL DATA ON ARBOREAL ORIBATID MITES (ACARI, ORIBATIDA) FROM VIETNAM

About authors:

Vladimir M. Salavatulin,

X-BIO Institute, Tyumen State University, Tyumen, Russia; State Agrarian University of the Northern Trans-Urals, Tyumen, Russia

Sergey G. Ermilov, e-mail

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

Alexey A. Kudrin,

Joint Russian-Vietnamese Tropical Research and Technological Center, Southern Branch, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; Institute of Biology, Komi Scientific Center, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Syktyvkar, Russia

Trung Duc Nguyen,

Joint Russian-Vietnamese Tropical Research and Technological Center, Southern Branch, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Acknowledgments:

This work was performed within the framework of the Joint Russian-Vietnamese Biological Expedition, financially supported by the Russian Academy of Sciences. We thank Dr. D. V. Sharapov (Tyumen State University, Tyumen, Russia) for English language editing; A. Kurgaeva for her help in the preparation of cartographic material; and the staff of the Cat Tien National Park for their support during fieldwork. The materials were collected as part of the scientific cooperation Agreement № 505/HĐ between the Cat Tien National Park and the Joint Russian-Vietnamese Tropical Research and Technological Center. Our research was partially supported by grant № 20-04-00606 from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, as well as by cooperative agreement № FEWZ-2021-0004 from the Russian Ministry of Science and Higher Education.

Annotation:

Our study is based on oribatid mite materials collected from the Dipterocarpus alatus, Haldina cardifolia and Ochrocarpos siamensis tree species in the Cat Tien National Park, southern Vietnam. A list of identified taxa includes 44 species/subspecies from 31 genera and 22 families. Of these, seven species are recorded for the first time from Vietnam, and two species are recorded for the first time from the Oriental region. Sixteen species of oribatid mites were collected from tree boles, 36 species, from tree crowns. The Jaccard index, measuring faunistic similarity, was equal to 0.18 for the mite communities of both zones.

DOI: 10.21684/0132-8077-2022-30-2-103-108

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