Notes on the family Macrodinychidae (Acari: Uropodina) with description of two new species

Abstract

The published records of the already known Macrodinychid species are summarized and a key to the known species of the family is given. New records of the different Macrodinychus species are presented from Saint Lucia, Dominican Republic, Cuba, Costa Rica, Suriname, Fiji, New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Thailand. Two new species (Macrodinychus malayicus sp. nov. and Macrodinychus extremicus sp. nov.) are described and illustrated. The species Macrodinychus paraguayensis Hirschmann, 1975 is proved to be the junior synonym of Macrodinychus parallelepipedus (Berlese, 1916).

Keywords:

• Acari
• Uropodina
• Macrodinychidae
• new species
• new records
• new synonym

Acknowledgements

I would like to thank Dr Sándor Mahunka and Dr Csaba Csuzdi for their valuable comments on the manuscript. This research was supported by Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (OTKA 72744).