Arthropods associated with world passalid beetles with particular reference to the Diarthrophallidae (Acari: Mesostigmata)
Author
Haitlinger, Ryszard
text
Journal of Natural History
2024
2024-08-12
58
29 - 32
1178
1259
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2024.2373490
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10.1080/00222933.2024.2373490
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FEDRIZZIIDAE Trägårdh, 1937
Fedrizziidae
contains three genera with 36 recognised species. Among them, 32 fedrizziid species from three genera have been found on 21 host species belonging to 9 genera (
Womersley 1958a
,
1959a
;
Pope and Chernoff 1978
;
Rosario and Hunter 1984
;
Corpuz-Raros 2001
; Seeman 2007, 2013;
Lin and Zhang 2013
). Only two species,
Fedrizzia strandi
(Oudemans, 1927)
and
Neofedrizzia laevis
(Canestrini, 1884)
, have not been found on
Passalidae
so far. Most species were collected from
Mastachilus australasicus
(Percheron, 1841)
(11),
Pharochilus dilatatus
(Dalman, 1817)
(9) and
M. quaestionis
(Kuwert, 1891)
(5) and the largest number of hosts found is for
Fedrizzia bornemisszai
Womersley, 1959
(5),
Neofedrizzia camini
Womersley, 1959
(5) and
F. sellinicki
Womersley, 1959
(4). Twenty species were collected from only one host. On five species of
Passalidae
only
Fedrizziidae
were found:
Fedrizzia bornemisszai
on
Analaches australiensis
(Stoliczka, 1873)
,
F. oudemansi
Womersley, 1959
,
F. parvipilus
Seeman, 2007
,
Neofedrizzia camini
on
Mastachilus
near
australasicus
,
F. bornemisszai
,
F
. cf.
grossipes
,
F. sellnicki
on
Aulacocyclus
sp.
,
F. bornemisszai
on
Analaches
sp.
and
Gonatas
sp.
and
F. grossipes
on
Passalidae
undet. (
Tables 2
,
5
,
6
and
10
).