Contribution to the knowledge of oribatid mites of the genus Austrocarabodes (Acari, Oribatida, Carabodidae) of Madagascar

Abstract

This work includes taxonomic and faunistic data on carabodid mites (Oribatida, Carabodidae) collected from the Montagne d'Ambre National Park, North Madagascar. A new species of the genus Austrocarabodes is described; A. madagascarensis n. sp. differs from A. similis and A. spathulatus by the presence of foveolae on the body surface. Supplementary descriptions of Austrocarabodes parapustulatus Mahunka, 2009 and A. planisetus Mahunka and Mahunka-Papp, 2011 which were originally described from Madagascar, are presented. The species Austrocarabodes spathulatus Mahunka, 1978 is recorded in Madagascar for the first time.

A new species of Carabodes (Acari, Oribatida, Carabodidae) from Guatemala, with a key to known species from the Neotropical region

“…Gnathosoma. Typical for Carabodidae (e.g., Ermilov & Starý 2020;Ermilov & Kontschán 2022). Subcapitulum size: 112-116 × 82-90.…”