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Type: Article
Published: 2014-12-17
Page range: 547–569
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New species of Uropodina from Madagascar (Acari: Mesostigmata)

Plant Protection Institute, Centre for Agricultural Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, H-1525 Budapest, P.O. Box 102, Hungary.
Biology Centre AS CR, Institute of Soil Biology, Na Sádkách 7370 05 České Budějovice, Czech Republic.
Acari Mesostigmata Uropodina new genus new species Madagascar

Abstract

Seven new species and one new genus of Uropodina are described from Madagascar. The third Afrotropical species of Polyaspis is described (Polyapis (Polyaspis) madagascarensis sp. nov.), with a key to the Afrotropical species of the genus. The first species of Dinychus from the Afrotropical region is described, as Dinychus lepus sp. nov.. An unusual new species of Trichouropoda species is described as Trichouropoda madagascarica sp. nov.. A new genus (Malagana gen. nov.) is described, with type species Malagana rotunda sp. nov.. The genus Pulchellaobovella is recorded from the Afrotropical Region for the first time, on the basis of Pulchellaobovella madagascarica sp. nov., with nomenclatural notes on the genera Pulchellaobovella and Janetiella. Uroobovella graeca Kontschán, 2010 is moved into the genus Pulchellaobovella, as Pulchellaobovella graeca (Kontschán, 2010b) comb. nov. Two new species of Rotundabaloghia (Circobaloghia) are described, Rotundabaloghia (Circobaloghia) ermilovi sp. nov. and Rotundabaloghia (Circobaloghia) kaydani sp. nov.