A new family of mites (Acari: Prostigmata: Raphignathina), highly specialized subelytral parasites of dytiscid water beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Dytiscinae)

Mortazavi, Abdolazim; Hajiqanbar, Hamidreza; Lindquist, Evert E.

doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlx113

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“…Dystiscids host suitable sites such as thorax or abdomen or wings for acari larval attachments (e.g. Smith & Oliver, 1986;Mortazavi, Hajiqanbar, & Lindquist, 2018). However, given the low and scattered abundances of this group, conclusions about specific population dynamics at Sturt Meadows are at risk of bias.…”

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Stygofaunal community trends along varied rainfall conditions: Deciphering ecological niche dynamics of a shallow calcrete in Western Australia

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Groundwaters host highly adapted fauna, known as stygofauna, which play a key role in maintaining the functional integrity of subterranean ecosystems. Stygofaunal niche studies provide insights into the ecological dynamics shaping the delicate balance between the hydrological conditions and community diversity patterns. This work aims to unravel the ecological trends of a calcrete stygofaunal community, with special focus on niche dynamics through the Outlying Mean Index analysis (OMI) and additional calculation of Within Outlying Mean Indexes (WitOMI), under three rainfall regimes. Temperature and pH changed significantly among different rainfall conditions (P < .001), and together with salinity were the most influential drivers in shaping stygofaunal assemblages. These environmental conditions, linked with nutrient fluctuations in the groundwater, constrained changes in niche occupation for water mites, two species of beetles and juvenile amphipods (OMI analysis, P < .05). The WitOMI analysis revealed differential subniche breadths linked with taxa-specific adaptations after different rainfall conditions. Our results indicate that stygofaunal niches are closely linked to the hydrodynamic conditions influenced by different rainfall regimes. Further long-term investigations, incorporating broader ecological perspectives, Please note that this is an author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version is available on the publisher Web site. will help to understand the impacts associated with climate change and anthropogenic pressures on one of the most threatened ecosystems in the world.

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Stygofaunal community trends along varied rainfall conditions: Deciphering ecological niche dynamics of a shallow calcrete in Western Australia

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“…A few additional species are anticipated to occur for most raphignathoid families, though we expect as many as 30 more for Stigmaeidae (Table 3). Furthermore, a new family of mites, Dytiscacaridae, living as subelytral parasites of dytiscid beetles in the USA (Mortazavi et al 2018), may later be found in Canada, since some of their host species occur here.…”

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Summaries of taxonomic knowledge are provided for all acarine groups in Canada, accompanied by references to relevant publications, changes in classification at the family level since 1979, and notes on biology relevant to estimating their diversity. Nearly 3000 described species from 269 families are recorded in the country, representing a 56% increase from the 1917 species reported by Lindquist et al. (1979). An additional 42 families are known from Canada only from material identified to family- or genus-level. Of the total 311 families known in Canada, 69 are newly recorded since 1979, excluding apparent new records due solely to classification changes. This substantial progress is most evident in Oribatida and Hydrachnidia, for which many regional checklists and family-level revisions have been published. Except for recent taxonomic leaps in a few other groups, particularly of symbiotic mites (Astigmata: feather mites; Mesostigmata: Rhinonyssidae), knowledge remains limited for most other taxa, for which most species records are unpublished and may require verification. Taxonomic revisions are greatly needed for a large majority of families in Canada. Based in part on species recorded in adjacent areas of the USA and on hosts known to be present here, we conservatively estimate that nearly 10,000 species of mites occur in Canada, but the actual number could be 15,000 or more. This means that at least 70% of Canada’s mite fauna is yet unrecorded. Much work also remains to match existing molecular data with species names, as less than 10% of the ~7500 Barcode Index Numbers for Canadian mites in the Barcode of Life Database are associated with named species. Understudied hosts and terrestrial and aquatic habitats require investigation across Canada to uncover new species and to clarify geographic and ecological distributions of known species.

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“…Lindquist's research contributions extend well beyond Ascidae sensu lato and Heterostigmata. He (with various coauthors) has published on the systematics of at least 13 other unrelated families or superfamilies of Mesostigmata 9, 28, 50, 62, 84, 85, 96 , Prostigmata 20,51,74,89,119,128 and Endeostigmata 59 . In addition, he has been involved in several ecological papers focussed on mite communities or their behavior, some with high impact in soil or canopy ecology 56,68,92,95,111 , and published influential papers on the evolution of phytophagy in mites 35, 81 and on mite symbioses with insects 17,26,65 .…”

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“…During his career, Evert has described nine new families and redescribed or rediagnosed 15; described 37 new genera and rediagnosed >90; and described 132 new species or subspecies and rediagnosed ~90. Just this year, he and coauthors described a new family of Raphignathina that consists of subelytral parasites of dytiscid water beetles 128 and a new tribe of Tarsonemidae that are parasites of tetrigid grasshoppers 129 . His publications include 33 keys to >170 species; 13 keys to >165 genera; and contributions to two family keys in the Manual of Acarology (2009).…”

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Evert E. Lindquist’s approach to the taxonomic impediment in Acarology: Diversity in specialization through 60 years of systematics research and beyond

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A new family of mites (Acari: Prostigmata: Raphignathina), highly specialized subelytral parasites of dytiscid water beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Dytiscinae)

Cited by 11 publications

References 60 publications

Stygofaunal community trends along varied rainfall conditions: Deciphering ecological niche dynamics of a shallow calcrete in Western Australia

Stygofaunal community trends along varied rainfall conditions: Deciphering ecological niche dynamics of a shallow calcrete in Western Australia

Acari of Canada

Evert E. Lindquist’s approach to the taxonomic impediment in Acarology: Diversity in specialization through 60 years of systematics research and beyond

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