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Issue: Vol. 1731 No. 1: 25 Mar. 2008
Type: Article
Published: 2008-03-25
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1731.1.4
Page range: 42–50
Abstract views: 35
PDF downloaded: 3

A new cunaxid genus with descriptions of two new species from Brazil (Acari: Prostigmata: Bdelloidea: Cunaxidae)

Setor de Zoologia, Departamento de Entomologia, Fitopatologia e Zoologia Agricola, Escola Superior de Agricultura “ Luiz de Queiroz”, Universidade de São Paulo, Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brasil,13418-900 South African address: Department of Entomology and Zoology, University of the Free State, P.O. Box 339, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa
Departamento de Fitossanidade, UNESP, Campus de Jaboticabal, São Paulo, Brazil, 14870-000
Acari Pseudobonzia Coleobonzia new species taxonomy identification key

Abstract

The genus Pseudobonzia Smiley 1975 is revised and divided into two genera. The genus Pseudobonzia Smiley, 1975, with its type species and five other related species, is retained. The remainder of the group is now known as Coleobonzia gen. nov. of which the main characteristics are provided. Coleobonzia argillae (Den Heyer, 1977) is designated as type species for the new genus. Two species from Brazil, viz. Coleobonzia clava sp. nov. and C. moraesi sp. nov. are described and figured. A key to the two genera as well as a key to the Brazilian and South African species of the new genus are provided.

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