New species of the family Scheloribatidae (Acari, Oribatida) from Peru

ABSTRACT

Two new species of oribatid mites of the family Scheloribatidae – Urubambates jakobi sp. nov. and Pachygena annae sp. nov. – are described, based on adults collected from upper soil and leaf litter in primary mountain forests in the Andes, Central Peru. Pachygena makarovae is supposedly a member of the genus Perscheloribates.

http://www.zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:10DAA55B-EBB2-45EF-9CB9-F0B5535B9030

KEYWORDS:

• Oribatid mites
• taxonomy
• morphology
• urubambates
• pachygena
• andes
• neotropical region

Acknowledgments

The authors thank Franz Wachtel (Grünwald, Germany) and David Hauth (Marburg and Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany) for expertise and assistance in the field; Dr Gerardo Lamas Müller and Dr Diana Silva Dávila (both Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru) for cooperation; two anonymous reviewers for valuable comments; and the Servicio Nacional Forestal y de Fauna Silvestre (SERFOR) for issuing a collecting permit (# 007-2014-SERFOR-DGGSPFFS) and export permit (# 003052-SERFOR).

Disclosure statement

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

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Funding

The study was partially supported by the cooperative agreement No. FEWZ-2021-0004 from the Russian Ministry of Science and Higher Education.