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 1464-5262 13758245 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 ).