A New Species of Holostaspella (Arachnida : Acari : Macrochelidae) from Kalimantan, Indonesia

Abstract

A species of mite of the genus Holostaspella (Acari : Macrochelidae), collected from the ventral body surface of dung beetles in East Kalimantan, Indonesia, is described as new to science. This species, H. katakurai sp. nov., is similar to H. mirabilis Petrova and Taskaeva, 1964, but differs from the latter in the number of preanal setae on ventrianal shield and ornamentation of sternal shield. The present new species provides an exception to the general correlation between phoresy and absence of paranal extensions of the cribrum in the genus.