No. 12 (28 Jun. 2002): 1-60
Accepted: 1 Apr. 2002
New pterogasterine mites from Nigeria and Brazil
I. Scheloribates,
Muliercula and Peloribates
M. ADETOLA BADEJO
Department of Zoology, Obafemi
Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria
STEFFEN WOAS
& LUDWIG
BECK
Staatlitches Müseum für Naturkunde, Postfach 11364, 63013,
Karlsruhe, Germany
Abstract
Ten new species of pterogasterine
oribatid mites belonging to three genera, Scheloribates,
Muliercula and
Peloribates, are
described. Five new species of Scheloribates
from Nigeria and three from Brazil are
compared with classical European as well as
South African species. Certain traits that are not common in classical Scheloribates
such as presence of translamella, presence
of tutorium and absence of kf were
found in some species. One species of Muliercula
from Nigeria is described and compared
with species from South Africa. The only
species of Peloribates collected
from Nigeria was also compared with the type species of this genus as well
as other closely related species. Certain stable
features of the three genera were identified as traits which, if peculiar
to all oribatuloid genera of pterogaterine mites, would have to be included in
a new definition of the group.
Key words: Scheloribates,
Muliercula, Peloribates, pterogasterine
mites, Nigeria, Brazil
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