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The genus Monoschelobates (Acari: Oribatida: Scheloribatidae)

  • Sergey G. Ermilov EMAIL logo and Stefan Friedrich EMAIL logo
Published/Copyright: May 15, 2016
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Biologia
From the journal Biologia Volume 71 Issue 4

Abstract

A new species of oribatid mites of Monoschelobates (Oribatida: Scheloribatidae) is described from upper soil and leaf litter in the primary evergreen lowland rainforest of Amazonian Peru. Monoschelobates masani Ermilov sp. n. differs from all species of the genus by the presence of rostrum triangular and protruding (vs. rostrum rounded) and well-developed of exobothridial setae (vs. minute), and the absence of translamellar line (vs. lateral parts of line present). New generic diagnosis and an identification key to the known species of Monoschelobates are provided. Monoschelobates is recorded in the Peruvian fauna for the first time.

Keywords: oribatid mites; fauna; new species; description; morphology; key; systematics; Peru; Neotropical region

Acknowledgements

We cordially thank two anonymous reviewers for the valuable comments; Dr. Umukusum Ya. Shtanchaeva and Prof. Dr. Luis Subías (both Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain) for consultations; Dr. Juliane and Erich Diller for kindly inviting one of us (Stefan Friedrich) to Panguana; Franz Wachtel (Grünwald, Germany) for expertise and assistance in the field and allocation of the Winkler extractors; Dr. Gerardo Lamas Müller and Dr. Diana Silva Dávila (both Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru) for cooperation; and the Dirección General Forestal y de Fauna Silvestre for issuing a collecting permit (# 0276-2013-AG-DGFFS-DGEFFS) and export permit (# 000521-MINAGRI-DGFFS). This project was supported by Prof. Dr. Roland Melzer (Zoologische Staatssammlung München, München, Germany) and the ”Freunde der Zoologischen Staatssammlung”. An overarching project, study of South American mites, was supported by the Russian Science Foundation (project 14-14-01134).

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Received: 2016-1-12
Accepted: 2016-3-17
Published Online: 2016-5-15
Published in Print: 2016-5-1

© 2016 Institute of Zoology, Slovak Academy of Sciences

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https://doi.org/10.1515/biolog-2016-0049
Keywords for this article
oribatid mites; fauna; new species; description; morphology; key; systematics; Peru; Neotropical region

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