New species of oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from Western Venezuela

G. Ermilov, Sergey

doi:10.22073/pja.v13i4.86025

New species of oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from Western Venezuela

Author

Sergey G. Ermilov

University of Tyumen, Institute of Environmental and Agricultural Biology (X-BIO), Tyumen, Russia

https://doi.org/10.22073/pja.v13i4.86025

Abstract

Two new species of oribatid mites (Oribatida)—Hermannobates neotropicus sp. nov. (Hermanniellidae) and Mucrobates venezuelaensis sp. nov. (Scheloribatidae)—are described, based on materials collected from sweep sample in the cloud forest in Western Venezuela. The genus Mucrobates is recorded in the Venezuelan fauna for the first time. Hermannobates neotropicus sp. nov. differs from the closely related species, H. intermedius Călugăr, 1990, by length and morphology of the bothridial seta. Mucrobates venezuelaensis sp. nov. differs from the closely related species, M. cayoaguaensis Ermilov & Kontschán, 2021, by the body size, the length of the bothridial and exobothridial setae, the presence of the pedotectum II, keel-shaped ridge and seta v’ on the leg genu II, and the location of the adanal seta ad₁.

Keywords

Hermannobates

morphology

Mucrobates

Neotropical region

taxonomy

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