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
journal article
10.1080/00222933.2024.2373490
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TARSOCHEYLIDAE
Atyeo and Baker 1964
Tarsocheylidae
is a small family with two genera and 15 species (
Cooreman 1951
;
Atyeo and Baker 1964
;
Khaustov and Ermilov 2018
;
Xu
et al
. 2019
;
Katlav
et al
. 2020
). Only
Hoplocheylus australiensis
Katlav and Seeman, 2020
was collected from
Mastachilus questionis
.
H
.
aethiopicus
was collected from
Pentalobus barbatus
and
Tarsocheylidae
undet was collected from
Passalidae
undet (
Tables 2
,
3
,
6
and
15
). At present is not possible to establish whether these relationships are permanent or only accidental.
Together, on the same host species,
Trombidiformes
were found with
Mesostigmata
6 times;
Astigmata
(4);
Oribatida
(2);
Pseudoscorpiones
(1);
Astigmata
and
Mesostigmata
(4);
Mesostigmata
and
Pseudoscorpiones
(4);
Mesostigmata
and
Oribatida
(3);
Astigmata
and
Oribatida
(2);
Astigmata
,
Mesostigmata
and
Oribatida
(1);
Astigmata
,
Mesostigmata
and
Pseudoscorpiones
(1);
Mesostigmata
,
Oribatida
and
Pseudoscorpiones
(1); and
Astigmata
,
Diptera
,
Mesostigmata
and
Oribatida
(1).