New faunistic and taxonomic data on oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from Montagne d'Ambre National Park, Madagascar

ABSTRACT

This work is based on oribatid mite materials collected from the Montagne d’Ambre National Park, Madagascar. Six species from four genera and two families are registered; of them, Pergalumna filifera recorded in Madagascar for the first time. A list (based on literature and our current data) of oribatid taxa from this park, including 60 species from 40 genera and 21 families, is presented. Two new galumnid species belonging to the genera Pergalumna and Galumna are described.

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KEYWORDS:

• Galumnid mites
• taxonomy
• morphology
• fauna
• Afrotropical region

Acknowledgments

We cordially thank two anonymous reviewers for valuable comments. Collecting in Madagascar was conducted under a permit No. 443/21/MEDD/SG/DGGE/DAPRNE/SCBE.Re; samples were exported to Russia under a permit No. 036N-EA02/MG21.

Disclosure statement

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

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Funding

The study was performed in the framework of the Russian State research project 122031100272-3. This research was partially supported by the cooperative agreement No. FEWZ-2021-0004 from the Russian Ministry of Science and Higher Education.