New species and new records of Uropodina from Virginia, USA (Acari: Mesostigmata)

Jenő Kontschán

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4347.2.9

New species and new records of Uropodina from Virginia, USA (Acari: Mesostigmata)

Zootaxa. 2017 Nov 13;4347(2):346-360. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4347.2.9.

Author

Jenő Kontschán¹

Affiliation

¹ Plant Protection Institute, Centre for Agricultural Researches, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, H-1525 PO Box, 102. Hungary.. kontschan.jeno@agrar.mta.hu.

PMID: 29245599
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4347.2.9

Abstract

Jedediella hoffmani sp. nov. and Trachytes virginiana sp. nov. are described on the basis of specimens from Virginia USA. This paper also presents the first published records of Trachytes balazyi Wiśniewski & Hirschmann, 1994, Discourella gaitlinburgiana Wiśniewski & Hirschmann, 1994 and Discourella modestasimilis Hiramatsu & Hirschmann 1979 from Virginia, and the first record of Discourella modestasimilis from USA.

Keywords: Acari, Uropodina, new species, new records, taxonomy, Virginia.

MeSH terms

Acari*
Animals
Colubridae
Mites
Virginia