Acrotritia Species (Acari: Oribatida: Euphthiracaridae) From China With Description of a New Species

Dong Liu; Jun Chen

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3937.1.6

Acrotritia Species (Acari: Oribatida: Euphthiracaridae) From China With Description of a New Species

Zootaxa. 2015 Mar 24;3937(1):127-46. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3937.1.6.

Authors

Dong Liu¹, Jun Chen²

Affiliations

¹ Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Environment, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130102, P. R. China.; Email: liudong@iga.ac.cn.
² Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, P. R. China; Email: chenj@ioz.ac.cn.

PMID: 25947464
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3937.1.6

Abstract

In this paper, eight species of Acrotritia (Acari: Oribatida: Euphthiracaridae) are identified, including a new species, Acrotritia tibetensis sp. nov., and four newly recorded species from China: Acrotritia gracile (Niedbała, 2000), Acrotritia hauseri (Mahunka, 1991), Acrotritia refracta (Niedbała, 1998) and Acrotritia simile (Mahunka, 1982). An updated diagnosis of the genus and remarks on some known species are presented, the validity of species A. hauseri is discussed, and a key to Chinese known species of Acrotritia is also provided.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Animals
China
Mites / anatomy & histology
Mites / classification*