A new species of Anderemaeus (Acari: Oribatida: Anderemaeidae) from Peru

About authors:

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:

We thank Dr. Luis S. Subías and Dr. Umukusum Ya. Shtanchaeva (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain) for their help with the identifcation of the new species; Franz Wachtel (Grünwald, Germany) and David Hauth (Marburg and  Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany) for their expertise and assistance in the feld; Dr. Gerardo Lamas Müller and Dr. Diana Silva Dávila (both of the Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru) for their cooperation; and the Servicio Nacional Forestal y de Fauna Silvestre (SERFOR) for issuing a collecting permit (# 007-2014-SERFOR-DGGSPFFS) and an export permit (# 003052-SERFOR). This research was partially supported by the cooperative agreement No. FEWZ-2021-0004 from the Russian Ministry of Science and Higher Education.

Annotation:

One new species of the oribatid mite genus Anderemaeus (Oribatida, Anderemaeidae)—A. umaluisorum sp. n.—is described, based on materials collected from soil-litter in an Andean primary mountain forest.

https://doi.org/10.21684/0132-8077-2023-31-1-9-13

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