Review of the genus Gamasellodes Athias-Henriot (Mesostigmata: Ascidae) in Russia, with a description of a new species

About authors:

X-BIO Institute, Tyumen State University, Tyumen, Russia; Department of Plant Protection, Yazd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Yazd, Iran; Department of Plant Protection, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
e-mail: o.dzhokharchi@utmn.ru

Severtsov Institute for Problems of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

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

Acknowledgments:

This research was supported by the cooperative agreement No. FEWZ-2021-0004 from the Russian Ministry of Science and Higher Education. Olga L. Makarova’s work was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project No. 20-54- 56054 Iran_t). We are grateful to E. E. Lindquist (CNCIAN, Canada) and G. J. de Moraes (San Paulo University, Brazil) for their consultations. Authors also thank N. A. Shulayev (Tyumen State University) for preparing SEM images, as well as to G. Dzhamirzoev, Director, and the rangers of the Dagestan State Nature Reserve for their all-around support of the field work.

Annotation:

A new predatory mite species of the genus Gamasellodes Athias-Henriot, 1961 (Mesostigmata: Ascidae), G. brevisetus sp. n., is described and illustrated based on morphological characters of adults collected from meadow soils of Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Western Siberia. The spermatodactyl of the male chelicera is unique among the representatives of this genus, being a thin-walled goffered tube possessing a broad opening. Female spermathecal apparatus is of a laelapid-type, with two unpaired successive chambers. In addition, an identification key to all known Russian species of the genus is presented, including G. rectiventris Lindquist, 1971, which was recorded from Russia for the first time.

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