Three new oribatid mite species of the genus Pergalumna (Galumnidae), P. paratsurusakii sp. nov., P. asetosa sp. nov and P. mahunkai sp. nov., are described from India. Pergalumna paratsurusakii sp. nov. is most similar morphologically to P. tsurusakii Starý from Japan, however it differs from latter by the body surface, body size and morphology of some notogastral porose areas. Pergalumna aset...

New Zealand contains 13 of the 69 species of Crotonia described globally and is the only place where all three genera of the Crotoniinae-Crotonia, Austronothrus and Holonothrus-have been recorded. Due to the pioneering work of Hammer (1966) and Luxton (1982) it also has the highest number of distribution records of Crotonia spp. anywhere. In the present study I build upon previous work to re-ex...

faunistic study of cryptostigmatic mites (acari: oribatida) in rasht township was conducted during 2008-2009. mites were extracted using berlese funnel from soil samples and cleared in lactophenol. cleared mites were mounted (in hoyer’s medium) on microscopic slides. in total, 15 species, 15 genera and 13 families of oribatid mites (acari: oribatida) were collected and identified. among the ide...