Abstract
This work includes taxonomic and faunistic data on carabodid mites (Oribatida, Carabodidae) collected from the Montagne d'Ambre National Park, North Madagascar. A new species of the genus Austrocarabodes is described; A. madagascarensis n. sp. differs from A. similis and A. spathulatus by the presence of foveolae on the body surface. Supplementary descriptions of Austrocarabodes parapustulatus Mahunka, 2009 and A. planisetus Mahunka and Mahunka-Papp, 2011 which were originally described from Madagascar, are presented. The species Austrocarabodes spathulatus Mahunka, 1978 is recorded in Madagascar for the first time.
Highlights
This work is based on oribatid mite (Acari, Oribatida) material, which was collected from the Montagne d’Ambre National Park (Madagascar), and includes data on the family Carabodidae
In the course of taxonomic identification we found four carabodid species, all representatives belonging to the genus Austrocarabodes Hammer, 1966; of these, one species is new to science
The primary goal of our paper is to describe and illustrate a new species under the name Austrocarabodes madagascarensis n. sp. and to present supplementary descriptions of two other Madagascar species, Austrocarabodes parapustulatus Mahunka, 2009 and A. planisetus Mahunka and Mahunka-Papp, 2011, adding new figures, SEM micrographs and information about some morphological structures and their measurements, identification of leg setae and solenidia and gnathosoma, which will assist with identification of these species in future
Summary
This work is based on oribatid mite (Acari, Oribatida) material, which was collected from the Montagne d’Ambre National Park (Madagascar), and includes data on the family Carabodidae. In the course of taxonomic identification we found four carabodid species, all representatives belonging to the genus Austrocarabodes Hammer, 1966 (the nominative subgenus); of these, one species is new to science. To present supplementary descriptions of two other Madagascar species, Austrocarabodes parapustulatus Mahunka, 2009 and A. planisetus Mahunka and Mahunka-Papp, 2011, adding new figures, SEM micrographs and information about some morphological structures and their measurements, identification of leg setae and solenidia and gnathosoma, which will assist with identification of these species in future. (Austrocarabodes) were summarized by Hammer (1966), Mahunka (1986), Hugo (2008), and Hugo-Coetzee (2011). Identification keys for selective species of Austrocarabodes were presented by Balogh and Balogh (1988, 2002), Mahunka (2009), Hugo-Coetzee (2011), and Ermilov and Tolstikov (2015)
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