A new species of Ficotarsonemus (Acari: Heterostigmata: Tarsonemidae) from the syconium of the sandpaper fig Ficus coronata

ABSTRACT

A new species, Ficotarsonemus bancrofti sp. nov., is described from female and male mites from within the syconium of the sandpaper fig Ficus coronata Spin collected from southeast Queensland, Australia. We summarize records of fig mites (Tarsonemidae: Tarsonemellini) to date and provide a key to genera and species.

Paper LSID:http://www.zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:21C35560-CC83-4C48-B731-54E8B37C3E3B

Species LSID:http://www.zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:B1F55563-D06E-4B8E-AB07-91088156838B

KEYWORDS:

• Taxonomy
• key
• symbiosis
• diversity
• Tarsonemoidea

Acknowledgments

We thank Shannon Robinson (Librarian, Queensland Museum) for helping us with references, and our two reviewers who helped improve the manuscript.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).