Three new species of the Pygmephoroidea (Acari: Neopygmephoroidae, Scutacaridae) from southern Chile

Abstract

Two new species of mites of the family Neopygmephoridae – Pseudopygmephorus longisetosus sp. nov. and Bakerdania sphagneti sp. nov. – and one of the Scutacaridae – Diversipes sineunguibus sp. nov. (Acari: Pygmephoroidea) – are described from mosses and litter from southern Chile. The genus Pseudopygmephorus Cross, 1965 is recorded from Chile for the first time.

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Keywords:

• Acari
• Heterostigmata
• Pseudopygmephorus
• Bakerdania
• Diversipes
• systematics
• Sphagnum
• litter
• Patagonia
• Chile

Acknowledgements

The author thanks Dr V.A. Stolbov, I.V. Kuzmin, S.A. Ivanov and R.V. Latyntcev (Tyumen State University, Tyumen, Russia) for collecting mites in Chile and D.V. Zhuravskiy (Tyumen State University, Russia) for help with SEM micrographs. The author also thanks Dr A.V. Tolstikov (Tyumen State University, Tyumen, Russia) for reviewing the manuscript and helpful suggestions.

Additional information

Funding

The present research was supported by the grant from the Russian Science Foundation [project No. 14-14-01134] to Dr A.A. Prokin.