New Otocepheidae (Acari, Oribatida) from Indonesia

ABSTRACT

Two new species of the family Otocepheidae (Oribatida) – Dolicheremaeus wickae sp. nov. and Megalotocepheus (Archegotocepheus) tjoae sp. nov. – are described based on adults collected from soil and litter of secondary rainforests in Jambi Province, Sumatra, Indonesia. Dolicheremaeus variolatus Mahunka, 1989 is recorded for the first time in the Indonesian fauna. An identification key to the 17 known representatives of Dolicheremaeus from Indonesia is provided.

http://www.zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:B265E466-CC44-4193-8649-DB28FE79EBCD

KEYWORDS:

• Oribatid mites
• Dolicheremaeus
• Megalotocepheus (Archegotocepheus)
• taxonomy
• morphology
• identification key
• Oriental region

Acknowledgments

We thank Dr Rahayu Widyastuti (Institute Pertanian Bogor, Bogor, Indonesia) for her collaboration in this project; Dr Bernhard Klarner (University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany) for collecting samples; Christina Barnes Richter (University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany) for help in building up the Indonesian oribatid mite morphospecies collection and the database; two anonymous reviewers for valuable comments; the State Ministry of Research and Technology of Indonesia (RISTEK) for the research permit and the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) and Ministry of Forestry (PHKA) for the collection permit; the village heads, local site owners, PT REKI, and Bukit Duabelas National Park for granting access to their properties; and many colleagues and helpers for support in the field.

Disclosure statement

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

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Funding

The study formed a part of the German–Indonesian research project CRC990–EFForTS funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG; project number 192626868-SFB 990). The study was partially supported by the cooperative agreement no. FEWZ-2021-0004 from the Russian Ministry of Science and Higher Education.