AnewspeciesofAmboroppia(Acari,Oribatida,Oppiidae)fromthePeruvianAndes,withremarksongenericdiagnosis

G. Ermilov, Sergey; Subias, Luis; Shtanchaeva, Umukusum; Friedrich, Stefan

doi:10.22073/pja.v11i3.75410

AnewspeciesofAmboroppia(Acari,Oribatida,Oppiidae)fromthePeruvianAndes,withremarksongenericdiagnosis

Authors

Sergey G. Ermilov ¹

Luis Subias ²

Umukusum Shtanchaeva ²

Stefan Friedrich ³

¹ Institute of Environmental and Agricultural Biology (X-BIO), Tyumen State University, Tyumen, Russia

² Complutense University, Madrid, Spain

³ SNSB-Bavarian State Collection of Zoology, Munich, Germany

10.22073/pja.v11i3.75410

Abstract

A new species of the neotropical genus Amboroppia (Oribatida, Oppiidae), A. andensis sp. nov. is described, based on adults collected from upper soil and leaf litter in primary mountain forest in the Andes, Central Peru. Additions to the generic diagnosis of Amboroppia are presented.

Keywords

Fauna

morphology

Neotropical region

oppiid mites

taxonomy