Oribatids from Madagascar II. (Acari: Oribatida)

Abstract

Oribatids from Madagascar II (Acari: Oribatida). -Seventeen species are listed, fifteen of them are new to science. Six new genera are established, one in the family Otocepheidae (Didierotocepheus gen. n.), four in the family Oppiidae (Lemuroppia gen. n., Pustuloppia gen. n., Radamoppia gen. n. and Fossoppia gen. n.) and one (Nosybelba gen. n.) representing a new family (Nosybelbidae fam. n.).

New species of oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) of the genera Belbodamaeus (Damaeidae), Malaconothrus (Malaconothridae) and Nothrus (Nothridae) from India

“…n. can be included in the Nothrus species group with one pair of long (not shorter than half of notogaster) notogastral caudal setae (Ermilov & Hugo-Coetzee 2012). This species is most similar morphologically (long h 2 , tridactylous legs, phylliform prodorsal and notogastral setae, c 2 inserted nearly to c 1 than c 3 ) to Nothrus mystax Mahunka, 1986 from Tanzania (see Mahunka 1986), however it differs from the latter by the smaller body size (680-697 × 365 versus 1090 × 574 in N. mystax), length of interlamellar setae (not longer than lamellar and dorsal notogastral setae c 1 , d 1 , d 2 , e 1 , f 1 versus clearly longer in N. mystax) and the position of notogastral setae d 1 (not reaching insertions of d 2 versus reaching in N. mystax).…”

Revision of the family Carabodidae (Acari: Oribatida) V (third part). Redefinition ofCongocepheus, definition ofCavaecarabodesgen. nov., and descriptions of three new species,Congocepheus germanisp. nov.,Cavaecarabodes pulchritudegen. nov., sp. nov., andCavaecarabodes anouchkaegen. nov., sp. nov.

“…The lamellar and rostral setae exist in the normal position; the lateral figure is incorrect. Finally, Co. velatus has 13 pairs of notogastral setae, as indicated by Mahunka (1986a).…”

The family Carabodidae (Acari, Oribatida) VIII. The genus Machadocepheus (first part) Machadocepheus leoneae sp. n. and Machadocepheus rachii sp. n. from Gabon

“…Mahunka (1986) redefined the genus (page 97) and supplied very brief figures of dorsal, lateral and ventral views (Figures 42, 43, 44); the type species Machadocepheus excavatus was redescribed (page 125) and figures 96 (anterior view) and 97 (bothridium and sensillus) added.…”