Abstract
Podocinidae Berlese is known in South America from only one species described from Brazil and several other locations on the continent. A complementary description of Podocinella misella (Berlese) is presented based on the morphology of adult females from litter collected in different parts of Brazil. Complementary characterization of the genus and a key to distinguish the five recognizable world Podocinella species are also presented.
Highlights
Podocinidae sensu Lindquist et al (2009) is a small family of mesostigmatic mites, comprising only two genera: Podocinum Berlese, 1882, with thirty-one species, and Podocinella Evans & Hyatt, 1958, with five species (Yan et al, 2012; Santos et al, 2017)
Podocinids are frequently found in litter samples in Brazil (Mineiro & Moraes, 2001)
We reviewed the species of Podocinum occurring in the country, describing a new species (Santos et al, 2017)
Summary
Podocinidae sensu Lindquist et al (2009) is a small family of mesostigmatic mites, comprising only two genera: Podocinum Berlese, 1882, with thirty-one species, and Podocinella Evans & Hyatt, 1958, with five species (Yan et al, 2012; Santos et al, 2017). Podocinidae has been used by other authors to comprise a different set of taxa, as discussed by Sourassou et al (2015). We reviewed the species of Podocinum occurring in the country, describing a new species (Santos et al, 2017). The objective of this paper is to provide morphological information about specimens of Brazilian populations identified as Podocinella misella (Berlese, 1913), revise the concept of Podocinella as to integrate additional morphological attributes observed in this study, and to present a key to world species of the genus
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