A NEW LARVAL SPECIES OF THE GENUS SMARIS (SMARIDIDAE, PARASITENGONA) FROM A BRAZILIAN CAVE

About authors:

Samuel Geremias dos Santos Costa,

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
e-mail: estoupa.bob@gmail.com

Brenda Karolina Gomes-Almeida,

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

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:

We thank the Ativo Ambiental company for collecting the specimen and Dr. Leopoldo Bernardi (Universidade Federal de Lavras) for depositing the specimen at UFMG AC. We are also grateful to Dr. Alexander Khaustov (X-Bio Institute, Tyumen State University) for hosting SGSC in the course of his visiting scholarship, which was funded by the Programa Institucional de Internacionalização from the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES—PrInt) (Finance Code 001), as well as by the Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais (FAPEMIG) and the Vale Sociedade Anônima company (VALE) (FAPEMIG-VALE Edital Nº 007/2018). We also thank Dr. Pavel B. Klimov (University of Purdue) for his assistance with language editing. In addition, SGSC and BGA thank the Programa de Pós Graduação em Zoologia (UFMG) and Graduate Support Program PAPG (FAPEMIG) for their scholarships.

Annotation:

Here, we describe a new smaridid species, Smaris hajiqanbari sp. n., based on the larva. This is the first description of a Smaris species from Brazil and the fourth larval Smaris ever described. An identification key to larval Smaris is also provided. 

DOI: 10.21684/0132-8077-2022-30-2-219-224

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