New and little known ptyctimous mites (Acari: Oribatida) with a key to known species of Oribotritia from the Australasian Region

Dong Liu

doi:10.1515/biolog-2016-0110

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New and little known ptyctimous mites (Acari: Oribatida) with a key to known species of Oribotritia from the Australasian Region

Dong Liu

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From the journal Biologia Volume 71 Issue 8

Abstract

In this study, a new species, Austrophthiracarus parabah sp. n., from New Zealand, is illustrated and described. Some new data, new sites and notes are provided for the species Microtritia novazealandiensisNiedbała, 2006 and Oribotritia parachichijimensis Niedbała & Penttinen, 2007. A key to known species of Oribotritia from the Australasian Region is provided to facilitate the further study on this group.

Key words: soil mites; box mites; Austrophthiracarus; Microtritia; Oribotritia

Acknowledgements

I am very grateful to all of those who collected specimens mentioned above. This work was supported by the State Key Program of National Natural Science of China (grant number 41430857), the Funds for The Excellent Youth Scholars of “IGA, CAS” (grant number DLSYQ2012004), the Funds for The Young Scientists Group of “IGA, CAS” (grant number DLSXZ1601), the Youth Innovation Promotion Association, CAS (grant number 2016209), the Knowledge Innovation Programs of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (grant number KSCX2-EW-Z-8), the Major Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China– Fauna Sinica (grant number 31493021), the Scientific and Technological Developing Scheme of Jilin Province (grant number 20130206073), the General and Special Program of China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (grant numbers 2015M580243 and 2016T90249), the Jilin Province Postdoctoral Science Foundation, the grant from the Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Environment of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (grant number 20160704) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant number. 31101617).

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Received: 2016-4-1

Accepted: 2016-7-4

Published Online: 2016-9-14

Published in Print: 2016-8-1

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Keywords for this article

soil mites; box mites; Austrophthiracarus; Microtritia; Oribotritia