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Abstract
Adults of Bromeliacarus cardoso gen. n., sp. n. are described from phytotelmata of Quesnelia arvensis (Vellozo) Mez. (Bromeliaceae) in the subtropical area of the Atlantic rainforest, São Paulo State, Brazil. The new genus Bromeliacarus is proposed and diagnosed, based primarily on the autapomorphic presence of 7–9 pairs of acetabula flanking the gonopore. A possible relationship between Bromeliacarus and other Wettinidae are discussed.
Highlights
Bromeliads phytotelmata are considered biodiversity amplifiers in the environments where they occur due to the specificity of a high number of species in this habitat (Rocha et al 2000, Gonçalves-Souza et al 2010)
The first paper resulting from that expedition dealt with the new species of the genus Xystonotus (Pešić et al 2015)
The new genus described here is the first member of Wettinidae to exhibit a polyacetabulate condition, bearing 7-9 acetabula on each side flanking the gonopore
Summary
Bromeliads phytotelmata (i.e. tank bromeliads) are considered biodiversity amplifiers in the environments where they occur due to the specificity of a high number of species in this habitat (Rocha et al 2000, Gonçalves-Souza et al 2010). The water mite fauna of bromeliad phytotelmata is insufficiently known (Kitching 2000). Viets 1939), only a few more studies on water mites from this unusual habitat have been published (see review in Kitching 2000 and references in Pešić et al 2015).
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