A NEW SPECIES OF WINTERSCHMIDTIA OUDEMANS (ACARI: ASTIGMATA: WINTERSCHMIDTIIDAE) FROM PERU

About authors:

Vasiliy B. Kolesnikov,

 Voronezh State Pedagogical University, Voronezh, Russia
e-mail: jukoman@yandex.ru

Alexander A. Khaustov,  e-mail

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

Alexander V. Petrov,

Institute of Forest Science RAS, Moscow Region, Russia

Pavel B. Klimov,

University of Michigan, Museum of Zoology, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
e-mail: pklimov@purdue.edu

Acknowledgments:

The authors are grateful to Alexander Sokolov for collecting bark beetles in Peru. This study was supported by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation within the framework of the Federal Scientific and Technical Program for the Development of Genetic Technologies for 2019–2027 (agreement № 075-15- 2021-1345, unique identifier RF-193021X0012).

Annotation:

Phoretic deutonymphs of Winterschmidtia tawantinsuyuca sp. n. (Acari: Winterschmidtiidae) are described from Peru. This is the fourth species of the genus recorded in the Neotropical realm. Similar to the three other Peruvian species, the new species is phoretic on bark beetles, but this is the first finding of Winterschmidtia on the beetles of the genus Xyleborus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae). The new species differs from all others in the ornamentation on of its prodorsal shield.

DOI: 10.21684/0132-8077-2023-31-2-193-198

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