Depressorotunda gen. nov., a new remarkable Uropodina mite genus from South-East Asia with description of four new species (Acari: Mesostigmata)

Abstract

A new genus Depressorotunda gen. nov. and four new species are described from South-East Asia, namely Depressorotunda malayana sp. nov. and Depressorotunda seticaudata sp. nov. from Malaysia, Depressorotunda thailandica sp. nov. from Thailand and Depressorotunda mirifica sp. nov. from Vietnam. A key to the species of the genus Depressorotunda is provided with 28 original drawings and scanning micrographs.

Keywords:

• Acari
• Uropodina
• new genus
• new species
• South-East Asia

Acknowledgements

I would like to thank Dr Csaba Csuzdi for his valuable comments on the manuscript. This paper was supported by the János Bolyai Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. I would also like to thank Dr Anne Baker and Mrs Janet Beccaloni for their kind hospitality during my studies in London. The author's stay and work in the Natural History Museum, London was supported by a grant from the European Commission's (FP 6) Integrated Infrastructure Initiative programme SYNTHESYS (GB-TAF-4884).