Persian Journal of Acarology

Two new species of Pavania(Acari: Heterostigmata: Dolichocybidae) associated with scarab beetles(Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) from Tanzania and Madagascar

Authors

Alexander Khaustov 1
Andrey Frolov 2

1 Tyumen State University, Tyumen, 6 Volodarskogo Str., 625003 Russia

2 Zoological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya Embankment 1, 199034, Saint Petersburg, Russia

https://doi.org/10.22073/pja.v11i4.76531
Abstract
Two new species of Pavania (Acari: Heterostigmata: Dolichocybidae) phoretic on dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scara-baeidae), P. neoafricana sp. nov. has been collected on Heliocopris neptunus in Tanzania, and P. madagascariensis sp. nov. has been collected on Helictipleurus quadripunctatus in Madagascar are described. The updated key to species of the genus Pavania is provided. The family Dolichocybidae is reported from Madagascar for the first time.

Keywords

Afrotropical region
dung beetle
key
phoresy
systematics
Persian Journal of Acarology
Volume 11, Issue 4
Autumn 2022
Pages 545-558

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