Umashtanchaeviella plethotricha, a new genus and species of the family Tetracondylidae (Acari, Oribatida)

Sergey G Ermilov; Alexander E Anichkin; Andrei V Tolstikov

doi:10.3897/zookeys.408.7605

Umashtanchaeviella plethotricha, a new genus and species of the family Tetracondylidae (Acari, Oribatida)

Zookeys. 2014 May 12:(408):51-9. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.408.7605. eCollection 2014.

Authors

Sergey G Ermilov¹, Alexander E Anichkin², Andrei V Tolstikov¹

Affiliations

¹ Tyumen State University, Tyumen, Russia.
² Joint Russian-Vietnamese Tropical Research and Technological Center, Hanoi-Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam ; A.N. Severtsov Institute of Problems of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.

Abstract

A new genus of oribatid mites of the family Tetracondylidae, Umashtanchaeviella gen. n., with type species Umashtanchaeviella plethotricha sp. n., is proposed and described from forest litter, the Bu Gia Map National Park, southern Vietnam. The new genus is distinguishable from other otocepheoid genera by the presence of notogastral plethotrichy.

Keywords: Oribatida; Tetracondylidae; Vietnam; new genus; new species.