Review of the mite genus Krantzolaspina Datta & Bhattacharjee (Mesostigmata, Parholaspididae) with re-description of K. angustatus comb. nov. (Ishikawa) from Indonesia

By

Quintero-Gutierrez, Edwin Javier
Sandmann, Dorothee
Combita, Orlando
Klarner, Bernhard
Widyastuti, Rahaju
Scheu, Stefan

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2020

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

997

Pages

47--68

Subjects

Gamasina , monotype , Morphology , Oriental region , rainforest , tropical lowland

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.997.54262

 

Abstract

Herein, we update the diagnosis and description of the genusKrantzolaspinaDatta & Bhattacharjee and provide a list of the three valid species including new combinations and synonyms, as follows: 1)Krantzolaspina angustatus(Ishikawa, 1987)comb. nov.(=Indutolaelaps jiroftensisHajizadeh et al., 2017syn. nov.), 2)K. rebatiiDatta & Bhattacharjee, 1989 and 3)K. solimani(Metwali, 1983)comb. nov.Finally, we re-describeK. angustatus(Ishikawa, 1987)comb. nov.based on the holotype from Japan, voucher specimens from Iran and additional females that we found in soil samples from oil palm plantations in Sumatra, Indonesia.