Mites of family Macrochelidae (Acari: Gamasida) associated with dung beetles in Mt Merapi National Park, Jogyakarta, Java, Indonesia

Abstract

Fourteen mite species in three genera of the family Macrochelidae were collected from the body surface of dung beetles (Scarabaeidae) in Mt Merapi National Park, Jogyakarta, Indonesia. Of these, three species, Macrocheles turgoensis n. sp., M. pumilus n. sp. and Glyptholaspis merapiensis n. sp., were described as new to science. The remaining 11 species were Glyptholaspis fimicola (Sellnick, 1931), Neopodocinum spinirostris (Berlese, 1910), M. dispar (Berlese, 1910), M. entetiensis Hartini and Takaku, 2005, M. hallidayi Walter and Krantz, 1986, M. jabarensis Hartini and Takaku, 2003, M. merdarius (Berlese, 1889, M. muscaedomesticae (Scopoli, 1772), M. oigru Walter and Krantz, 1986, M. sukaramiensis Takaku, 2001 and M. sp. aff. glaber (Müller, 1860.

Review of The Diversity of Macrochelid Mites from Sumatra, Indonesia

“…Most macrochelid mites are free-living in soil, beachside debris, poultry manure, leaf litter, dung, and decomposing animals and many species are phoretic on other animals. They have also been collected from the nest of small mammals, birds, and social insects [1,2]. Macrochelid mite plays a significant role as a predator of nematodes, oligochaetes, larvae, and eggs of flies and other arthropods [2].…”

“…Well-developed corniculi present on the gnathosoma, tripartite tectum (unipartite on some species); chelicerae bearing 1-2 arthrodial processes on the base of the movable digit. First tarsi without claws; two anterolateral setae on the tibia and genu I; 6-8 setae on the genu IV [1].…”

Mites of the Family Macrochelidae (Acari: Gamasida) from Sungai Wain, East Kalimantan, Indonesia

“…Kalimantan, the Indonesian part of the island of Borneo in Southeast Asia, comprises the largest land area in the Major Sunda Islands in Indonesia. Several taxonomic studies on macrochelid mites have been carried out in Sumatra and Java in the Major Sunda Islands (e.g., Vitzthum 1925;Takaku 2001;Hartini and Takaku 2003a, b;Hartini et al 2009), where more than 30 species have been recorded, but there has been no comprehensive study of macrochelids in Kalimantan. To date, 16 species of macrochelids have been recorded from Kalimantan by Takaku (2003c, 2004) and Hartini et al (2003), all collected from scarabaeine dung beetles.…”

Macrochelid mites (Acari: Gamasina: Macrochelidae) in the Philippines

“…In Southeast Asia, especially in Indonesia, macrochelid mites have been studied by many acarologists for the last 100 years (Oudemans, 1903;Berlese, 1905Berlese, , 1910Berlese, , 1911Berlese, , 1921Vitzthum, 1925Vitzthum, , 1926Krantz, 1965Krantz, , 1967aWalter and Krantz, 1986a, b;Hartini and Aziz, 1992;Takaku, 1998Takaku, , 2001Takaku and Hartini, 2001;Hartini and Takaku, 2003a, b, c, 2004, 2006a, b, 2010, 2012Hartini et al, 2003Hartini et al, , 2005Hartini et al, , 2007Hartini et al, , 2009. However, in the most parts of the region, macrochelid fauna had not been investigated with only fragmentary records of some species.…”