Two New Phoretic Species of Heterostigmatic Mites (Acari: Prostigmata: Neopygmephoridae and Scutacaridae) on Australian Hydrophilid Beetles (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae)

Insects

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Hamidreza Hajiqanbar¹  Hamid Khadem-Safdarkhani¹  Alihan Katlav²  Markus Riegler²  Owen Seeman³ 

[1]Department of Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran P.O. Box 14115-111, Iran

[2]|Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith, NSW 2751, Australia

[3]|Queensland Museum, South Brisbane, QLD 4101, Australia

关键词: systematics;    Australia;    symbiosis;    mites;    aquatic insects;   

DOI  :  10.3390/insects13050483

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Many heterostigmatic mites (Acari: Prostigmata: Heterostigmata) display a wide range of symbiotic interactions, from phoresy to parasitism, with a variety of insects. Australia is expected to harbour a rich diversity of heterostigmatic mites; however, its phoretic fauna and its host associations remain mainly unexplored. We conducted a short exploration of Australian insect-associated phoretic mites in summer 2020 and found two new phoretic heterostigmatic species on a semiaquatic hydrophilid beetle species, Coelostoma fabricii (Montrouzier, 1860) (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). Here, we describe these two new species, Allopygmephorus coelostomus sp. nov. (Neopygmephoridae) and Archidispus hydrophilus sp. nov. (Scutacaridae), which both belong to the superfamily Pygmephoroidea. Both species are distinct from their congeners, with a plesiomorphic character, bearing a median genital sclerite (mgs). Our study reports both genera for the first time from Australia.

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