Acarina. 2009. Vol. 17 (1): 1-32.
Diapause and quiescence as two main kinds of dormancy and their significance in life cycles of mites and ticks (Chelicerata: Arachnida: Acari). Part 2. Parasitiformes.
Belozerov, V.N.
Concerning the problem of life history and such an important its aspect as seasonality of life cycles and their control enabled by dormant stages, the parasitiform mites reveal the obvious similarity with the acariform mites. This concerns the presence of both main kinds of dormancy (diapause and quiescence). The great importance in the seasonal control of life cycles in parasitiform mites, like in acariform mites, belongs also for combinations of diapause with non-diapause arrests, particularly with the post-diapause quiescence (PDQ). This type of quiescence evoked after termination of diapause and enabling more accurate time-adjustment in recommencement of active development, is characteristic of both lineages of the Parasitiformes - Ixodida and Mesostigmata (particularly Gamasida). The available data show that in ixodid ticks the PDQ may be resulted similarly after developmental and behavioral diapause. Reproductive diapause combined with the PDQ is characteristic of some gamasid mites (particularly the family Phytoseiidae), while most gamasid and uropodid mites with phoretic dispersal reveal the dormant state (apparently of diapause nature) at the deutonymphal stage. The uncertainty between diapause and non-diapause dormancy is retained in some many cases (even in ixodid ticks and phytoseiid mites), and the necessity of further thorough study of different forms of diapause and non-diapause arrests in representatives of the Acari is noted therefore.
Acarina. 2009. Vol. 17 (1): 33-55.
Water mites of the family Limnocharidae (Acariformes, Hydrachnidia) from Madagascar.
Tuzovsky, P.V. and Gerecke, R.
Water mites of the family Limnocharidae collected from spring and stream habitats in Madagascar were studied. Five species new to science, Limnochares fasta n. sp., L. connexa n. sp., L. simulans n. sp., Neolimnochares madagascariensis n. sp., and N. longirostris n. sp., are described and their taxonomic relationships are discussed. New records are given of L. crinita Koenike, 1898. A key is provided for the African species of the family.
Acarina. 2009. Vol. 17 (1): 57-64.
A new genus and new species of feather mite of the family Pterolichidae (Acari: Astigmata) from Gallus gallus (Galliformes: Phasianidae) in the Galápagos Islands.
Mironov, S.V., Pérez, T.M. and Palma, R.L.
Epistomolichus reticulatus (Pterolichidae: Pterolichinae), gen. nov., sp. nov., is described from a domestic chicken Gallus gallus (Aves: Phasianidae) from Santa Cruz Island, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador. Males and females of the new species have a rostrum-like extension above the gnathosoma, a character rarely found in members of the Pterolichidae and other feather mite taxa. Epistomolichus reticulatus is morphologically different from pterolichids associated with other domesticated galliform birds, but resembles pterolichid genera restricted to megapodes (Galliformes: Megapodiidae). The presence of E. reticulatus on a domestic chicken in the Galápagos Islands is enigmatic: it may be either a mite specific to G. gallus inherited from its wild ancestor, or a mite transferred from an unknown galliform species kept in farmyards in South America, which established successfully on domestic chickens.
Acarina. 2009. Vol. 17 (1): 65-73.
A new genus and three new species of the mite family Microdispidae (Acari: Heterostigmata) from Crimea
Khaustov, A.A.
A new genus, Paramicrodispus gen. nov. (Acari: Microdispidae), and three new species of the genera Premicrodispus Cross, 1965 and Dolichodispus Khaustov, 2006 are described from Crimea: P. karadagensis sp. n., P. acutisetus sp. n., and Dolichodispus rarus sp. n., Paramicrodispus crenulatus (Savulkina, 1978) comb. nov. is redescribed.
Acarina. 2009. Vol. 17 (1): 75-82.
Two new species of the water mite genus Aturus (Acariformes: Aturidae) from Russia.
Tuzovsky, P.V.
Illustrated descriptions of two new water mite species, A. simulans (male, female and deutonymph) from the Asian part of Russia and Aturus polyporus (male and female) from the European part of Russia, are given.
Acarina. 2009. Vol. 17 (1): 83.
Feltria orientalis nom. n., a new replacement name for the water mite F. longipalpis Tuzovskij, 1999 (Acari: Feltriidae).
Tuzovsky, P.V.
A new name, Feltria orientalis nom. n., is proposed for the binomen Feltria longipalpis Tuzovskij, 1999 (preoccupied by Lundbland 1941).
Acarina. 2009. Vol. 17 (1): 85-87.
A new species of the genus Neositeroptes (Acari: Heterostigmata: Pygmephoridae) from Crimea.
Khaustov, A.A.
A new species Neositeroptes euxinus sp. n. collected in the forest litter of the "Cape Martyan" Nature Reserve, Crimea, Ukraine is described.
Acarina. 2009. Vol. 17 (1): 89-100.
On identity of the type species of the feather mite genus Anhemialges Gaud, 1958 (Astigmata: Analgidae), with the description of a new genus of the analgid subfamily Megniniinae.
Mironov, S.V.
This paper demonstrates that the genus Anheminalges Gaud, 1958 (Analgidae: Analginae) is based on the misidentified type species "Anhemialges longipes (Trouessart, 1899)". As indicated originally (Gaud 1958) and subsequently, this species commonly occurs on the barn swallow, Hirundo rustica (Passeriformes), and some other hirundinid species worldwide. Examination of the holotype specimen of Megninia longipes Trouessart, 1899 described from the horned screamer, Anhima cornuta (Anseriformes), from South America revealed that it does not correspond to the species occurring on hirundinids and belongs to the subfamily Megniniinae rather than Analginae. The species actually involved in the misidentification, Anhemialges gaudi sp. n. (=A. longipes sensu Gaud, 1958, non Trouessart, 1899), is fixed here as the type species of the genus Anhemialges (Article 70.3.2, ICZN). A new genus, Anhimomegninia gen n., is established based on Megninia longipes. The genus Anhemialges is provided with an emended diagnosis and the species Anhimomegninia longipes (Trouessart, 1899), comb. n. is redescribed based on the holotype.
Acarina. 2009. Vol. 17 (1): 101-106.
Morphology of juvenile stages of Conchogneta traegardhi (Acari: Oribatida: Autognetidae) and comparison with those of C. willmanni.
Ermilov, S.G. and Łochynska, M.
The morphology of juvenile stages of the oribatid mite Conchogneta traegardhi is studied for the first time. Moreover, immatures of this species are compared with those of C. willmanni willmanni, which occupy similar habitat.
Acarina. 2009. Vol. 17 (2)
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