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
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1259
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2024.2373490
journal article
10.1080/00222933.2024.2373490
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HOPLOMEGISTIDAE Camin and Gorirossi, 1955
Hoplomegistidae
is a small family with one genus and seven species, of which four species are associated with
Passalidae
(
Turk
1948
;
Hyatt 1964
;
Flechtmann 1981
;
Zhang
et al
. 2017a
). Four species were collected from
Passalidae
:
Stenosternum bicrinus
(Berlese, 1918)
from
Passalus punctiger
Lepeletier and Serville, 1825
and
S. bifurcata
Zhang, Yi, Guo and Jin, 2017
,
S. cordata
Zhang, Yi, Guo and Jin, 2017
and
S. truittae
(Baker and Hunter, 1986)
. All other species were from unidentified
Passalidae
(
Tables 2
,
4
,
5
and
8
).