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Issue: Vol. 5569 No. 1: 13 Jan. 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-01-13
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5569.1.2
Page range: 55-92
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New species and new records of Cosmolaelaps Berlese (Acari: Laelapidae) from the Republic of Korea, with a review of the Korean species of the genus

Laboratory of Insect Biosystematics; Department of Agricultural Biotechnology; Seoul National University; Seoul; Republic of Korea
Anatis Bioprotection Inc.; Saint-Jacques-de-Mineur; Québec; J0J 1Z0; Canada
Laboratory of Insect Biosystematics; Department of Agricultural Biotechnology; Seoul National University; Seoul; Republic of Korea; Research Institute of Agriculture and Life Sciences; Seoul National University; Seoul; Republic of Korea
Department of Plant medicals; Andong National University; Andong; Republic of Korea; Agriculture Science and Technology Institute; Andong National University; Andong; Republic of Korea
Acari Parasitiformes Gamasina Dermanyssoidea taxonomy new species myrmecophilous mites

Abstract

This paper reports on six species of the genus Cosmolaelaps (Laelapidae) in the Republic of Korea: Cosmolaelaps brevipedestra (Karg) and C. robustochaetes Ma & Lin collected from soil-litter, and Cosmolaelaps cavosternalis sp. nov., C. hallasanensis sp. nov., C. oedipus sp. nov., C. sansungensis sp. nov. collected in association with ants or their nests. The new species are described and illustrated based on morphological characteristics of the adults and immature stages and compared with closely related species. We provide additional morphological information and new illustrations for two other species to facilitate species delimitation. An identification key to all known Korean Cosmolaelaps species is presented, and ambiguities on the identification of C. koreicus Che & Seo are discussed.

 

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