Abstract
Two new species of oribatid mites of the family Carabodidae are described from leaf litter in forest of Cayo Santa Maria, Cuba. Carabodes paravenezolanus n. sp. is morphologically most similar to C. venezolanus Subias and Arillo, 2004, but it differs from the latter by the convex notogaster, bothridial setae with clear, flattened heads, notogaster without tubercles and epimere I with three pairs of setae. Gymnobodes minimus n. sp. is morphologically most similar to G. fraterculus (Balogh, 1963) and G. subnudus (Balogh, 1963), but it differs from both by the centro-dorsal part of notogaster with strong, well separated tubercles. An identification key to known species of Gymnobodes is given. The genus Gymnobodes is recorded for the first time in the Neotropical region. The genus Kalloia and the species Kalloia simpliseta Mahunka, 1985 are recorded for the first time in Cuban fauna.
Highlights
This work is a part of our continuing study of the Cuban fauna of oribatid mites, and includes the data on the family Carabodidae (Acari, Oribatida)
During taxonomic identification of material from Cuba we found three species of Carabodidae; two are new for science, belonging to the genera Carabodes and Gymnobodes Balogh, 1965
The identification keys to selective species of Carabodes were summarized by Bulanova-Zachvatkina (1975), Reeves and Behan-Pelletier (1998), Balogh and Balogh (2002), Weigmann (2006) and Bayartogtokh (2010)
Summary
This work is a part of our continuing study of the Cuban fauna of oribatid mites (see Ermilov and Tolstikov 2015), and includes the data on the family Carabodidae (Acari, Oribatida). The main generic traits were summarized by Reeves and Behan-Pelletier (1998). The identification keys to selective species of Carabodes were summarized by Bulanova-Zachvatkina (1975), Reeves and Behan-Pelletier (1998), Balogh and Balogh (2002), Weigmann (2006) and Bayartogtokh (2010). Gymnobodes is a small genus, comprising three known species, which are distributed in the Ethiopian region and Borneo (Balogh 1963; Mahunka 1996). It is recorded for the first time in the Neotropical region. The main goal of the paper is to describe and illustrate two new species, to compare them with closely related species, and to present data on the new findings of carabodid taxa in Cuba
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