REDEFINITION OF AMETROPROCTUS (ACARI: ORIBATIDA) WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES

1987 ◽  
Vol 119 (6) ◽  
pp. 505-536 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valerie M. Behan-Pelletier
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Oribatid Mite ◽  
Generic Diagnosis ◽  
Western North America ◽  
Respective Type ◽  
Mite Genus

AbstractThe oribatid mite genus Ametroproctus, soil and litter inhabitants in the desert, alpine, and montane regions of western North America, is discussed. Two subgenera are recognized, Ametroproctus s. str. and Coropoculia. Their respective type-species, A. oresbios Higgins and Woolley and C. reticulata Aoki and Fujikawa, are redescribed, and newly discovered immatures of both species are described. Four new species are proposed, A. (Ametroproctus) tuberculosus, A. (A.) aridus, A. (Coropoculia) beringianus, and A. (C.) canningsi. A new generic diagnosis is given, as well as a key to subgenera and species known from North America.

Analysis of the genus Gymnodampia (Acari: Oribatida), with redescription of G. setata and description of two new species from North America

2004 ◽  
Vol 136 (6) ◽  
pp. 793-821 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Chen ◽  
Roy A. Norton ◽  
Valerie M. Behan-Pelletier ◽  
Hui-Fu Wang
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Oribatid Mite ◽  
North American Species ◽  
Generic Diagnosis ◽  
The Family ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Circular Line ◽  
Mite Genus

AbstractMorphology, distribution, and habitat data are presented for three species of the oribatid mite genus Gymnodampia Jacot occurring in North America. A revised generic diagnosis is given and the type species Gymnodampia setata (Berlese) is redescribed based on topotypic material from Missouri. Immatures of G. setata are described and aspects of their biology are presented. Two new species from North America, G. jacotisp. nov. and G. lindquistisp. nov., are proposed and described on the basis of adults, and a key is given for North American species of Gymnodampia. The ameroid genera Cristamerus Hammer, from Pakistan and China, and Defectamerus Aoki, from Japan, Korea, and China, are considered junior synonyms of Gymnodampia, and G. conformis (Fujikawa) is considered a junior synonym of G. fusca (Fujikawa). Immatures of G. setata are apheredermous, but with a circular line of dehiscence, whereas known immatures of the superfamily Ameroidea are eupheredermous. Nonetheless, without convincing apomorphic traits linking Gymnodampia to any known apheredermous family of Brachypylina, we hypothesize that Gymnodampia has lost the eupheredermy characteristic of Ameroidea, and we place it in the family Ameridae on the basis of adult similarities.

The genus Carabodes (Acari: Oribatida: Carabodidae) of North America, with descriptions of new western species

1998 ◽  
Vol 76 (10) ◽  
pp. 1898-1921 ◽  
Author(s):  
R Marcel Reeves ◽  
Valerie Behan-Pelletier
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
New Species ◽  
New Mexico ◽  
North America ◽  
Oribatid Mite ◽  
Western North America ◽  
Diagnostic Key ◽  
Mite Genus

Four new species of the oribatid mite genus Carabodes from western North America are described, based on adult specimens: Carabodes california known from California, C. colorado from British Columbia, Alberta, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico, C. dickinsoni from British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, and California, and C. hoh from British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, and California. We provide an expanded diagnosis of the genus, including information on integumental birefringence, chaetotaxy, palptarsal setation, and position of lyrifissure iad. We present a table of character states and a diagnostic key for the 28 species, as well as a summary of their distributions.

scholarly journals CONTRIBUTION TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE ORIBATID MITE GENUS ANGULLOZETES (ACARI: ORIBATIDA: SCHELORIBATIDAE)

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 75-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergey G. Ermilov ◽  
Umukusum Ya. Shtanchaeva ◽  
Luis S. Subías
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Body Length ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Oribatid Mite ◽  
Generic Diagnosis ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Mite Genus

A new species of the genus Angullozetes (Oribatida: Scheloribatidae) is described from New Zealand. Angullozetes. arilloi sp. nov. differs from the type species, A. rostratus Hammer, 1967 by the smaller body length, the presence of four pairs of notogastral porose areas and the absence of aggenital setae. A revised generic diagnosis of Angullozetes is presented.

Crassoribatula biobioensis sp. nov. (Acari, Oribatida) from Chile, with transfer of the genus to Maudheimiidae (Ceratozetoidea)

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (12) ◽  
pp. 2235-2249
Author(s):  
Sergey G. Ermilov
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Oribatid Mite ◽  
Neotropical Region ◽  
Generic Diagnosis ◽  
First Time ◽  
Mite Genus

The oribatid mite genus Crassoribatula is recorded in the Neotropical region for the first time. One new arboreal species—Crassoribatula biobioensis sp. nov.—is described from twigs of olivillo tree in Chile; it differs from the type species—Crassoribatula maculosa—by the length of exobothridial and notogastral setae. The tritonymphal instar of the new species is described (the first data on juveniles in this genus). The systematic placement of Crassoribatula is discussed, resulting in transfer from Oribatulidae (Oripodoidea) to Maudheimiidae (Ceratozetoidea). A revised generic diagnosis for Crassoribatula is presented. 

scholarly journals Contribution to the knowledge of the oribatid mite genus Pilobatella (Acari, Oribatida, Haplozetidae)

Acarologia ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 545-556
Author(s):  
Sergey G. Ermilov ◽  
Josef Starý
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
National Park ◽  
Oribatid Mite ◽  
Generic Diagnosis ◽  
Region Versus ◽  
Medium Length ◽  
Anogenital Region ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Forest Leaf Litter ◽  
Mite Genus

The genus Pilobatella (Oribatida, Haplozetidae) comprises 10 species, which are distributed in the Palaeotropical region; this includes two new species described herein on the basis of adult specimens sampled from forest leaf litter in Andasibe-Mantadia National Park of eastern Madagascar. Pilobatella mikoi n. sp. is similar to Pilobatella baloghi Mahunka, 2003 in having long interlamellar setae and adanal setae ad1 and ad2, but differs by having monodactylous legs (versus tridactylous) and a bothridial seta that is gradually expanded to a narrow head (versus setiform, without head). Pilobatella kovaci n. sp. is similar to P. mikoi n. sp. in having monodactylous legs, long interlamellar setae and adanal setae ad1 and ad2, but differs by the presence of lineolate notogaster and anogenital region (versus lineolate markings absent), long tutoria (versus tutoria of medium length), rounded trochanters distodorsally (versus pointed) and clearly distanced medial ends of apodemes 2 (versus nearly touching at midline). A revised generic diagnosis and an identification key to known species of Pilobatella are presented.

THE SEMIAQUATIC GENUS TEGEOCRANELLUS (ACARI: ORIBATIDA: AMERONOTHROIDEA) OF NORTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA

1997 ◽  
Vol 129 (3) ◽  
pp. 537-577 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valerie M. Behan-Pelletier
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Costa Rica ◽  
Central America ◽  
Oribatid Mite ◽  
The Other ◽  
Generic Diagnosis ◽  
Character Analysis ◽  
First Time ◽  
Mite Genus

AbstractSpecies of the oribatid mite genus Tegeocranellus from North and Central America are discussed, and immatures are described for the first time. Six new species are described and keyed: Tegeocranellus alas from Costa Rica, T. barbarae from Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida, T. kethleyi from Alabama and Mississippi, T. mississippii from Louisiana and Texas, T. muscorum known from Ontario to Florida, and T. mediolamellatus from Guatemala. Descriptions of T. alas, T. barbarae, T. mediolamellatus, and T. muscorum are based on adults and immatures, and those of the other two species on adults only. I expand the generic diagnosis to include information on the apheredermous, plicate immatures, and present a character analysis hypothesizing that the monogeneric family Tegeocranellidae is a member of the Ameronothroidea, closely related to Selenoribatidae and Fortuyniidae.

scholarly journals TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE GENUS GEPHYRAZETES (ACARI, ORIBATIDA, MOCHLOZETIDAE)

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 34-41
Author(s):  
Sergey G. Ermilov ◽  
Josef Starý
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Body Size ◽  
National Park ◽  
Oribatid Mite ◽  
Generic Diagnosis ◽  
Distribution And Ecology ◽  
Ethiopian Region ◽  
First Time ◽  
One New Species ◽  
Mite Genus

The oribatid mite genus Gephyrazetes (Oribatida, Mochlozetidae) is recorded for the first time in the Ethiopian region; one new species is described from soil and litter of Korup National Park in Cameroon. Gephyrazetes umukusumae sp. nov. differs from G. fasciatus Hirauchi, 1999 by the larger body size, truncate lamellar cusps, setiform bothridial setae, very small notogastral porose areas, paraanal position of adanal lyrifissures, presence of four pairs of genital setae and tuberculate lateral parts of prodorsum, and absence of dorsosejugal and sublamellar porose areas. Revised generic diagnosis and the data on distribution and ecology of Gephyrazetes species are presented.

scholarly journals Revision of the Empis (Enoplempis) mira species group (Diptera: Empididae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4927 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-57
Author(s):  
BRADLEY J. SINCLAIR ◽  
SCOTT E. BROOKS ◽  
JEFFREY M. CUMMING
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Species Group ◽  
Western North America ◽  
Body Colour ◽  
Yellow Body ◽  
Males And Females

The Empis (Enoplempis) mira species group is revised and includes the type species of Enoplempis and four new species (E. macdonaldi sp. nov., E. submira sp. nov., E. williamturneri sp. nov., E. winkleri sp. nov.). A lectotype is designated for Enoplempis mira Bigot. The species group is defined by the yellow body colour, directionally asymmetrical male hindlegs and geniculate hindlegs in both males and females. The group has not been found outside of western North America and is known from California, Oregon, Idaho and Washington. 

scholarly journals Contribution to the knowledge of the oribatid mite genus Kalloia (Acari, Oribatida, Carabodidae), with description of a new species from Indonesia

Acarologia ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 323-334
Author(s):  
Sergey G. Ermilov ◽  
Dorothee Sandmann ◽  
Stefan Scheu
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Oil Palm ◽  
Oribatid Mite ◽  
Generic Diagnosis ◽  
Transverse Ridge ◽  
Generic Status ◽  
Jungle Rubber ◽  
First Time ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Mite Genus

The genus Kalloia (Oribatida, Carabodidae) is recorded in the Oriental region for the first time. A new species — Kalloia gerdweigmanni n. sp. — is described from litter of oil palm plantations and jungle rubber agroforests from Sumatra, Indonesia. It differs from Kalloia simpliseta Mahunka, 1985 by the presence of a transverse ridge in the mediodistal part of the lamellae, translamella and two thick, diagonal, convergent ridges forming a triangular structure in the medioanterior part of the notogaster, and by the localization of notogastral setae da, dm, la, lm, lp and h1. The generic status of Kalloia is discussed and supported. Kalloia mahunkai Pérez-Íñigo and Baggio, 1989 and Machadocepheus foveolatus Mahunka, 1978, which were considered representatives of Kalloia, are removed from this genus and combined preliminarily in Gibbicepheus. Revised generic diagnosis and data on ecology and distribution of known species of Kalloia are presented.

scholarly journals Contribution to the knowledge of the oribatid mite genus Perxylobates (Acari, Oribatida, Haplozetidae)

Acarologia ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 612-621
Author(s):  
Sergey G. Ermilov ◽  
Jhih-Rong Liao
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Agricultural Research ◽  
Ricinus Communis ◽  
Anterior Part ◽  
Oribatid Mite ◽  
Identification Key ◽  
Generic Diagnosis ◽  
Taxonomic Proposal ◽  
Mite Genus

Perxylobates hakkai n. sp. (Oribatida, Haplozetidae) is the second representative of the genus recorded in Taiwan; it is described based on adults from soil under Ricinus communis on a farm of the Agricultural Research and Extension Station in Miaoli District. The new species differs from related Perxylobates coreanus Choi and Aoki, 1993 by the presence of five pairs of genital setae (versus four pairs), four pairs of notogastral porose areas including A3 (versus three pairs, A3 absent), minute epimeral seta 1c (versus comparatively long), roughened epimeral and aggenital setae (versus heavily barbed), and smooth anterior part of prodorsum (versus foveolate). A revised generic diagnosis and an identification key to known species of Perxylobates are provided. The systematic placement of Perxylobates mahunkai Bayoumi, 1980 is discussed, resulting in the following new taxonomic proposal: Protoribates mahunkai (Bayoumi, 1980) n. comb.

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