TAXONOMY OF MADAGASCAN ATOPOMELIDAE (ACARI, ASTIGMATA, PSOROPTIDIA) I: DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF LISTROPHOROIDES ASSOCIATED WITH ORYZORICTES HOVA (AFROSORICIDA, TENRECIDAE)

About authors:

Vasiliy B. Kolesnikov,

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

Barry M. OConnor,

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

Acknowledgments:

The authors are grateful to Sergey V. Mironov (Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia) for his help with analyzing the material. 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). The authors acknowledge G. Kenneth Creighton (USNM), Steven Goodman (FMNH), Christopher Raxworthy and Ronald Nussbaum (UMMZ) for their collaborations in the field research.

Annotation:

This is the first work in a series of taxonomic investigations of Madagascan Atopomelidae, associated with Tenrecidae. Here, a new species—Listrophoroides (Madlistrophoroides) bochkovi sp. n. (male and female)—associated with Oryzorictes hova (Afrosoricida, Tenrecidae), is described. The new species is similar to Listrophoroides (Madlistrophoroides) fortis, but differs from the latter in a number of morphological features in both males and females, as well as in host specificity. Two species of Listrophoroides were found on Oryzorictes hova: Listrophoroides (Madlistrophoroides) uniformis and the new species.

DOI: 10.21684/0132-8077-2024-32-2-191-198

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