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Issue: Vol. 1873 No. 1: 10 Sep. 2008
Type: Article
Published: 2008-09-10
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1873.1.4
Page range: 39–49
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Combined approach using morphology and ITS-sequences for description of three new species of Macrocheles (Acari: Macrochelidae)

Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia, 1033 Green Street, Athens, GA 30602, USA UMR 5175 CEFE, Ecologie des Arthropodes, Laboratoire de Zoogéographie, Université Montpellier 3, route de Mende, F-34199 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
UMR 5175 CEFE, Ecologie des Arthropodes, Laboratoire de Zoogéographie, Université Montpellier 3, route de Mende, F-34199 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
Acari Macrocheles lumareti sp. nov. M. bertrandi sp. nov. M. ovoidalis sp. nov. ITS sequence morphology description phylogeny

Abstract

Three new phoretic mites from France and Gabon are described. Macrocheles lumareti sp. nov. (from France) was collected on Copris lunaris (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Both M. bertrandi sp. nov. and M. ovoidalis sp. nov. (from Gabon) were collected on Stomoxys calcitrans (Diptera). On the basis of morphological characteristics, M. lumareti and M. bertrandi were identified as belonging to the M. glaber and M. muscadomesticae groups respectively. Genetic analyses using an ITS marker confirmed that M. lumareti belongs to the M. glaber-group s. str., more closely related to M. glaber than all other species. The analysis did not support M. bertrandi as a member of the M. muscaedomesticae group. The third species, M. ovoidalis, using both morphological and genetical markers, appeared clearly isolated from all other known Macrocheles species.

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