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Issue: Vol. 4410 No. 3: 18 Apr. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-04-18
DOI: 10.11646/Zootaxa.4410.3.10
Page range: 567–599
Abstract views: 49
PDF downloaded: 1

The Neotropical mite genus Neopilizetes (Oribatida: Galumnidae): redescription of N. neotropicus, rediagnosis of the genus, and descriptions of four new species

Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz, Rodovia Jorge Amado, BR-415, Km 16, 45662-900, Ilhéus-BA, Brazil.
Faculty of Environmental and Forest Biology, College of Environmental Science and Forestry, State University of New York, 1 Forestry Drive, Syracuse, NY 13210, USA.
Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz, Rodovia Jorge Amado, BR-415, Km 16, 45662-900, Ilhéus-BA, Brazil.
Acari soil fauna taxonomy pilizetoid group Brazil Galumnoidea

Abstract

Neopilizetes is a genus of the oribatid mite family Galumnidae that was first characterized by having well-developed setae, a dorsosejugal suture, and raised striae on the prodorsum and notogaster. It was proposed to accommodate Pilizetes neotropicus Balogh & Mahunka 1978 from Brazil—the only supposed Pilizetes species known outside the Ethiopian Region—and it has remained monotypic. We found adults of N. neotropicus and four related species in soil–litter interface samples of a single cacao plantation in Ilhéus, Bahia, Brazil. Herein we: redescribe N. neotropicus; describe Neopilizetes thoracicus n. sp., Neopilizetes tigris n. sp., Neopilizetes triumnasus n. sp. and Neopilizetes unumnasus n. sp., and use this information to develop a new concept and expanded diagnosis of Neopilizetes. A key to the five species is provided, and we offer reasons for rejecting the classification of Neopilizetes as a subgenus of Pilizetes.

 

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