A review of myrmecophilous mites of the family Microdispidae (Acari, Heterostigmatina) of Western Siberia

By

Khaustov, Alexander

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2014

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

454

Pages

13-28

Subjects

Acari , Ants , Heterostigmatina , phoresy , systematics , Western Siberia

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.454.8709

 

Abstract

Five species of myrmecophilous microdispid mites (Acari: Microdispidae) are recorded from Western Siberia, Russia. Unguidispus lasii Kurosa, 1979, U. japonicus Kurosa, 1979, Caesarodispus minutus (Sevastianov, 1981), and C. samsinaki (Mahunka, 1967), comb. n. are reported from Russia for the first time. Unguidispus polyctenus (Sevastianov, 1969) and Caesarodispus samsinaki are redescribed. The keys to species of the genera Unguidispus Mahunka, 1970 and Caesarodispus Mahunka, 1977 are provided.