Morphology of a newly recorded species, Eremaeozetes octomaculatus Hammer, 1973 from Indonesia (Acari: Oribatida: Eremaeozetidae), with its genetic information

ABSTRACT

Herein, the supplementary description of adults of Eremaeozetes octomaculatu along with illustrations is provided, which is recorded for the first time from Indonesia. Eremaeozetes octomaculatus is an Oriental and Oceanian species, currently known from the Western Samoa Island of Polynesia, Luzon and Mindanao Islands of the Philippines, Okinawa Island in the Ryukyu Archipelago of Japan, and recently we found it in the Java Island of Indonesia. This species appears to be primarily an inhabitant of tropical forests, and it prefers mosses and fungi growing on stones, tree trunks, as well as forest floors and decomposed plant debris. Data of analysis on 28S D3 gene sequence of this species is provided. Comparison of the E. octomaculatus sequence with other oribatid mites 28S D3 sequences identifies that Scapheremaeus is the closest relative to E. octomaculatus with regard to the species included in this analysis, but the relationship was supported by week bootstrap value.

KEYWORDS:

• Oribatid mites
• Eremaeozetes
• gene sequence
• new record
• Indonesia

Acknowledgments

We are grateful to three anonymous reviewers for their critical reading of the manuscript with valuable comments. This study was carried out with Cooperation research (Research Center for Biology-LIPI) with permission number 8/TKPIPA/FRP/SM/VIII/2013.

Disclosure statement

The authors have no conflict of interest regarding the contents of this work.

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Funding

This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Numbers JP24570095 and JP15K07201, and additional support by the National University of Mongolia is highly appreciated.