A REVIEW OF RAPHIGNATHUS (ACARI: RAPHIGNATHIDAE) OF ASIAN RUSSIA

About author:

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

Acknowledgments:

Annotation:

The genus Raphignathus Dugès (Acari: Raphignathidae) of Asian Russia is reviewed. Raphignathus sakhalinensis sp. n. is described based on female and male specimens collected from spruce bark on Sakhalin Island; R. longipes sp. n. is described based on female and male specimens collected from various regions of Russia (Bashkortostan, Tyumenskaya Oblast, the Respublika Altay and Kamchatka). Raphignathus fani Doğan and Ayyildiz and R. ozkani Doğan are recorded from Russia for the first time and redescribed. Raphignathus gracilis (Rack) is recorded from Asian Russia for the first time. A key to the species of Raphignathus of Russia is also provided. 

DOI: 10.21684/0132-8077-2023-31-2-225-247

Bibliography:

Atyeo, W. T. 1963. New and redescribed species of Raphignathidae (Acarina) and a discussion of the chaetotaxy of the Raphignathoidea. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 36: 172–186.

Beron, P. 2020. Acarorum catalogus VII: Trombidiformes, Prostigmata, Raphignathoidea (Fam. Barbutiidae, Caligonellidae, Camerobiidae, Cryptognathidae, Dasythyreidae, Dytiscacaridae, Eupalopsellidae, Homocaligidae, Mecognathidae, Raphignathidae, Stigmaeidae, Xenocaligonellididae). Pensoft, National Museum of Natural History, Sofia, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia. 306 pp.

Doğan, S. 2006. Contributions to the knowledge of the raphignathoid mites of Turkey (Acari, Raphignathoidea) with description of a new species. International Journal of Acarology, 32: 371–375.

Doğan, S. and Ayyıldız, N. 2003. Mites of the genus Raphignathus (Acari: Raphignathidae) from Turkey. New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 30: 141– 148.

Dönel, G. and Doğan, S. 2011. A new species of Raphignathus Duges (Acari, Raphignathidae) and newly discovered male of R. fani Doğan and Ayyıldız from Turkey. International Journal of Acarology, 37 (suppl.): 27–33.

Fan, Q.-H. and Yin, X.-M. 2000. The genus Raphignathus (Acari: Raphignathidae) from China. Systematic and Applied Acarology, 5 (1): 83–98.

Fan Q.-H. and Zhang, Z.-Q. 2005. Raphignathoidea (Acari: Prostigmata). Fauna of New Zealand, 52: 1–400.

Grandjean, F. 1939. Les segments postlarvaires de l’hysterosoma chez les oribates (Acariens). Bulletin Societe Zoology France, 64: 273–284.

Grandjean, F. 1944. Observations sure les Acariens de la famille des Stigmaeidae. Archives des Sciences Physiques et Naturelles, 26: 103–131.

Grandjean, F. 1946. Au sujet de l’organe de Claparède, des eupathides multiples et des taenidies mandibulaires chez les Acariens actinochitineux. Archives des Sciences Physiques et Naturelles, 28: 63–87.

Hu, S. and Chen, X. 1998. A new species of Raphignathus from Jiangxi, China (Acari: Raphignathidae). Acta Arachnologica Sinica, 7 (1): 15–18.

Hu, C.-Y., Jing, Z.-Q. and Liang, L.-R. 1995. Two new species and one new record of the genus Raphignathus Dugès (Acari: Raphignathidae). Journal of Suzhou Railway Teachers College, 12 (3): 21–26. [In Chinese]

Kethley, J. B. 1990. Acarina: Prostigmata (Actinedida). In: D. L. Dindal (Ed.). Soil Biology Guide. Wiley, New York, pp. 667–756.

Khan, E. M., Kamran, M., Mirza, J. H. and Alatawi, F. J. 2023. New subgenera and a new species of the genus Raphignathus Dugès (Prostigmata, Raphignathidae), with taxonomic notes on the genus Neoraphignathus Smiley & Moser. Zookeys, 1176: 165–180.

Khaustov, A. A. and Sergeyenko, A. L. 2014. Raphignathid mites (Acari: Raphignathoidea) of the Cape Martyan Nature Reserve, Crimea. Systematic and Applied Acarology, 19 (3): 363–372.

Kuznetsov, N. N. 1976. To the fauna of mites of the fam. Raphignathidae Kramer, 1877. Nauchnie doklady visshey shkoly, Biologicheskie nauki, 8 (152): 37–44. [In Russian]

Kuznetsov, N. N. and Petrov, V. M. 1984. Predacious Mites of the Baltic Region (Parasitiformes: Phytoseiidae, Acariformes: Prostigmata). Riga, Zinatne. 142 pp. [In Russian]

Rack, G. 1962. Milben aus Taubennestern mit Beschreibung einer neuen Art, Acheles gracilis (Acarina, Raphignathidae). Zoologischer Anzeiger, 168 (7–10): 275–292.