CONTRIBUTION TO THE SYSTEMATICS OF THE GENUS ARCHIDISPUS (ACARI: SCUTACARIDAE) OF RUSSIA

About authors:

Alexander A. Khaustov, e-mail

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

Vladimir A. Khaustov, e-mail

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

Acknowledgments:

The study was supported by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation within the framework of the Carbon Measurement Test Area in the Tyumenskaya Oblast (FEWZ-2024-0016). The authors are sincerely grateful to late Dr. V. A. Trach (I. I. Mechnikov National University, Odessa, Ukraine) for loaning the type materials of Archidispus posietis.

Abstract:

The mite species Archidispus reductus sp. n. (Acari: Heterostigmata: Scutacaridae) is described based on phoretic females collected from wet forest litter in the Carbon Measurement Test Area located in the Tyumenskaya Oblast, Russia (Western Siberia). The poorly known species Archidispus posietis (Sevastianov, 1974) is redescribed based on the type materials.

DOI: 10.21684/0132-8077-2026-34-1-29-40

References:

Baumann, J. 2018. Tiny mites on a great journey—a review on scutacarid mites as phoronts and inquilines (Heterostigmatina, Pygmephoroidea, Scutacaridae). Acarologia, 58 (1): 192–251

Ebermann, E. 1991a. Das Phänomen Polymorphismus in der Milbenfamilie Scutacaridae (Acari, Heterostigmata, Tarsonemina, Scutacaridae). Zoologica, 47 (141): 1–76.

Ebermann, E. 1991b. Records of polymorphism in the mite family Scutacaridae (Acari, Tarsonemina). Acarologia, 32 (2): 119–138.

Ebermann, E. and Goloboff, P. A. 2002. Association between neotropical burrowing spiders (Araneae: Nemesiidae) and mites (Acari: Heterostigmata, Scutacaridae). Acarologia, 42: 173–184.

Ebermann, E. and Palacios-Vargas, J. G. 1988. Imparipes (Imparipes) tocatlphilus n. sp. (Acari, Tarsonemina, Scutacaridae) from Mexico and Brazil: first record of ricinuleids as phoresy hosts for scutacarid mites. Acarologia, 29, 347–354.

Faizi, F., Hajiqanbar, H., Talebi, A. A., Khaustov, A. A., Saboori, A. and Mehrabadi, M. 2025. A new species and three new records of Archidispus Karafiat (Acari: Scutacaridae) from Iran, with a key to Iranian species. Systematic and Applied Acarology, 30 (8): 1423–1433.

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

Grandjean, F. 1947. L’origine pileuse des mors et la chaetotaxie de la mandibule chez les Acariens ac­tinochitineux. Comptes Rendus des Séances de l’Academie des Sciences, 224: 1251–1254.

Hajiqanbar, H. and Khaustov, A. A. 2014. First record of the genus Archidispus (Acari: Scutacaridae) from Iran with description of a new species. Persian Journal of Acarology, 3 (1): 1–8.

Katlav, A., Hajiqanbar, H. and Talebi, A. A. 2016. Two remarkable new species of the superfamily Pygmephoroidea (Acari: Heterostigmata) associated with beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae, Staphylinidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 109: 136–144.

Khadem-Safdarkhani, H., Hajiqanbar, H., Riegler, M., Seeman, O. and Katlav, A. 2022. Two new phoretic species of heterostigmatic mites (Acari: Prostigmata: Neopygmephoridae and Scutacaridae) on Australian hydrophilid beetles (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). Insects, 13 (5): 483.

Khaustov, A. A. 2008. Kleshchi Semeystva Scutacaridae Vostochnoy Palearktiki [Mites of the Family Scutacaridae of Eastern Palaearctic]. Akademperiodyka, Kyiv, 291 pp.

Khaustov, A. A., Hugo-Coetzee, E. A. and Ermilov, S. G. 2017. A new genus of the mite family Scutacaridae (Acari: Heterostigmata) associated with Trinervitermes trinervoides (Isoptera: Termitidae) from South Africa. Zootaxa, 4258 (5): 462–476.

Khaustov, A. A. and Tolstikov, A. V. 2016. The diversity, mite communities, and host specificity of pygmephoroid mites (Acari: Pygmephoroidea) associated with ants in Western Siberia, Russia. Acarina, 24 (2): 113–136.

Kurosa, K. 1991. The Scutacarid mites of Japan. XI. Four new Archidispus associated with ground beetles of the tribes Nebriini, Bembidiini and Patrobini. Japanese Journal of Entomology, 59 (3): 539–554.

Kurosa, K. 2009. The scutacarid mites of Japan. XIV. A new species of Archidispus phoretic on stenolophine carabid beetles. Journal of the Acarological Society of Japan, 18 (2): 85–90.

Lindquist, E. E. 1986. The world genera of Tarsonemidae (Acari: Heterostigmata): a morphological, phylogenetic and systematic revision, with a reclassification of family-group taxa in Heterostigmata. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada, 136: 1–517

Sevastianov, V. D. 1974. New species of mites of the family Scutacaridae (Trombidiformes). Vestnik Zoologii, 6: 18–22. [in Russian].

Sevastianov, V. D. 1978. Tarsonemina. In: М. S. Gilarov (Ed.). Opredelitel Obitayushchikh v Pochve Kleshchey Trombidiformes [Key to Soil Dwelling Mites. Trombidiformes]. Nauka, Moscow, pp. 14–90. [In Russian].

Zhang, Z. Q., Fan, Q. H., Pesic, V., Smit, H., Bochkov, A. V., Khaustov, A. A., Baker, A., Wohltmann, A., Wen, T., Amrine, J. W., Beron, P., Lin, J., Gabrys, G. and Husband, R. 2011. Order Trombidiformes Reuter, 1909. In: Z. Q. Zhang (Ed.). Animal Biodiversity: An Outline of Higher-Level Classification and Survey of Taxonomic Richness. Zootaxa. Magnolia Press, Auckland, New Zealand, vol. 3148, pp. 129–138.