Oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) from Bethuadahari Wildlife Sanct-uary of West Bengal, India

Basu, Paramita; Kanti Sanyal, Asok

doi:10.22073/pja.v5i4.21599

Oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) from Bethuadahari Wildlife Sanct-uary of West Bengal, India

Authors

Paramita Basu

Asok Kanti Sanyal

Zoological Survey of India, M-Block, New Alipore, Kolkata- 700053, India;

10.22073/pja.v5i4.21599

Abstract

An annotated checklist of oribatid mite taxa from Bethuadahari Wildlife Sanctuary of West Bengal, India, is presented on the basis of a faunistic survey carried out inside the sanctuary from January, 2011 to December, 2012. A total of 44 oribatid species, belonging to 37 genera in 24 families, have been identified. The present study has also documented nine species as the new records from India. The most frequent species of this sanctuary are Protoribates (P.) magnus (Aoki, 1982), Lamellobates (L.) molecula (Berlese, 1916), Perscheloribates (P.) albialatus (Hammer, 1961), Lamellobates (Paralamellobates) bengalensis Bhaduri & Raychaudhuri, 1968, Tectocepheus velatus sarekensis Trägårdh, 1910, Multioppia radiata Hammer, 1961, and Hoplophorella cuculata (Ewing, 1909). Additionally, the most species rich families of the study area are Oppiidae Sellnick, 1937 and Scheloribatidae Grandjean, 1933.

Keywords

Checklist

conservation area

forest

leaf litter

new records

soil

taxonomy