Mites of the Family Macrochelidae (Acari: Gamasida) from Sungai Wain, East Kalimantan, Indonesia Author Dwibadra, Dhian Systematic Entomology Laboratory, Graduate School of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060 - 8589, Japan E-mail: dwibadra _ yk @ yahoo. com & Corresponding author dwibadra_yk@yahoo.com Author Takaku, Gen Biological Laboratory, Hokkaido University of Education Sapporo, 5 - 3 - 1 Ainosato, Kita-ku, Sapporo 002 - 8502, Japan Author Ôhara, Masahiro The Hokkaido University Museum, N 10 W 8, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060 - 0810, Japan Author Ueda, Akira Kyushu Research Center, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute (FFPRI), 4 - 11 - 16 Kurokami, Kumamoto 860 - 0862, Japan text Species Diversity 2014 2014-05-25 19 1 43 57 http://dx.doi.org/10.12782/sd.19.1.043 journal article 7126 10.12782/sd.19.1.043 238dd2d3-f38f-4e11-a2be-87c16ff21dd8 2189-7301 4584938 DAF49072-BF15-46A1-A660-1F8703EBA795 Glyptholaspis confusa ( Foà, 1900 ) Holostaspis confusus Foà, 1900: 137 , figs 5, 5 bis, 6. Macrocheles ( Macrocheles ) vagabundus var. neotropicus Berlese, 1918: 173 [partim]. Macrocheles plumiventris Evans and Browning, 1956: 36 ; Filipponi and Seganti 1957: 27 ; Balogh 1958: 253 , figs 26–30. Macrocheles ( Macrocheles ) confusus : Filipponi and Ilardi 1958: 118 . Glyptholaspis confusa : Filipponi and Pegazzano 1960: 154 , figs 5, 6, tav. VII, VIII; Krantz 1972: 270 ; Halliday 1986: 73 ; Hyatt and Emberson 1988: 116 ; Mašán 2003: 122 , figs 124–125. Material examined. Km 22 : 1 female , Acacia mangium plantation, 23 December 2006 , ex residue in vial. BBG : 3 females , 4–9 December 2008 , ex residue in vial. Diagnosis. Female. Dorsal shield large, oval, with punctate-reticulate pattern; posterior margin of dorsal shield between setae Z5 with 5 large denticles and numerous microdenticles; most dorsal setae brush-shaped and densely plumose; setae j5 brush-shaped and longer than z6; setae j6, z5, and 1 unpaired median seta between j6 and J2 pilose; setae z6 and J2 pilose distally; network meshes of sternal and ventrianal shield mostly micropunctured; ventrianal shield with truncate anterior margin; preanal setae short and brush-like. Habitat. This species has been found from the scarab beetle genera Aphodius , Euoniticellus , Liatongus , and Onthophagus . This was also collected from cadavers and in compost heaps, decaying fodder, silage, and bird nests. Distribution. Indonesia ( Kalimantan ; new record), Philippines , Japan , Israel , Turkmenistan , Uzbekistan , Australia , New Zealand , British Isles, Germany , Switzerland , Austria , Slovakia , Italy , Bulgaria , Greece , Russia , Caucasus, and Argentina .