Three new species of the subgenus Otocepheus (Acrotocepheus) (Acari, Oribatida, Otocepheidae) from China

Li-Hao Zheng; Jun Chen

doi:10.3897/zookeys.934.49862

Three new species of the subgenus Otocepheus (Acrotocepheus) (Acari, Oribatida, Otocepheidae) from China

Zookeys. 2020 May 19:934:1-23. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.934.49862. eCollection 2020.

Authors

Li-Hao Zheng^{1

2

3}, Jun Chen^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing China.
² College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing China.
³ Guang'an Vocational and Technical College, Guang'an, 638000, China Guang'an Vocational and Technical College Guang'an China.

Abstract

Three new species of subgenus Otocepheus (Acrotocepheus): O. (A.) digitatussp. nov., O. (A.) multigranulatussp. nov., and O. (A.) occultatussp. nov. are proposed and described based on adult material collected from China, and O. (A.) duplicornutus Aoki, 1965 is reported in China for the first time. A key to Chinese species of the subgenus Acrotocepheus is provided.

Keywords: key; new record; new species; oribatid mites; taxonomy.

Li-Hao Zheng, Jun Chen.