Macrochelid Mites (Arachnida : Acari : Macrochelidae : Glyptholaspis, Macrocheles, Neopodocinum) Associated with Dung Beetles in Bali, Indonesia

New records of macrochelid mites and description of a new phoretic species (Acari: Mesostigmata: Macrochelidae) from Greece

“…is similar to N. caputmedusae (Berlese, 1908), differences between them are shown in the Table 1. Differences also were confirmed between N. longisetum and the other earlier described species of Neopodocinum (Bregetova 1958;Costa 1965;Krantz 1965, Hartini andTakaku 2003;Hartini and Takaku 2004;Iavorschi 1975;Moraza 2004;Takaku and Hartini 2001 It should be noted that Neopodocinum jaspersi (Oudemans, 1900) was described from Holland (Oudemans 1902), but it was excluded from Mašán's (2003) key to European Neopodocinum species.…”

Javanese Species of the Mite Genus Macrocheles (Arachnida: Acari: Gamasina: Macrochelidae)

“…More than 20 mite species of the family Macrochelidae have been recorded and described from Indonesia: 10 species from Sumatra, 12 species from Java, and 11 species from Bali (Oudemans, 1903;Berlese, 1905Berlese, , 1911Berlese, , 1921Vitzthum, 1925Vitzthum, , 1926Krantz, 1965Krantz, , 1967aWalter and Krantz, 1986a, b;Takaku, 1998Takaku, , 2001Takaku and Hartini, 2001). Macrocheles is a genus of the family Macrochelidae, and nine species of the genus were recorded and described from Java: M. crispa , M. dispar , M. hallidayi Walter and Krantz, 1986 , M. kraepelini (Berlese, 1905) , M. krantzi Hyatt, 1963 , M. limue Samšiňák, 1962 , M. merdarius (Berlese, 1889) , M. oigru Walter and Krantz, 1986 and M. subbadius (Berlese, 1904).…”

Macrochelid Mites (Acari: Gamasina: Macrochelidae) Associated with Drug Beetles in Sulawesi, Indonesia

“…About 50 species of mites of the family Macrochelidae have been recorded from Indonesia by our serial studies (Hartini and Takaku, 2003a-c, 2004, 2006aHartini et al, 2003Hartini et al, , 2005Takaku and Hartini, 2001) and by previous studies (Berlese, 1905(Berlese, , 1910(Berlese, , 1920Krantz, 1965Krantz, , 1967aOudemans, 1903;Vitzthum, 1931). Previous surveys have been undertaken by us in Sumatra, Kalimantan, Java, Bali, Lesser Sunda Islands, and Papua.…”