This communication presents preliminary results of studies on the mite fauna observed in the spruce stands of the Bucegi Massif in central Romania. In the collected material a total of 6436 specimens were found, which were classified to 62 species from 15 families. The most numerous were the species Veigaia nemorensis (1660 individuals), Leptogamasus parvulus (804) and Leptogamasus tectegynellu...

Pachyseius anisimovi sp. nov. is described based on specimens from soil and litter in the Altai Mountains and the West and East Sayan Mountains in South Siberia, Russia. A key to ten Pachyseius species known from Asia is provided. 

Two new species of the genus Pachyseius are described from leaf litter in Turkey. Pachyseius destitutus sp. nov. is described based on the female, and P. quadrigeminus sp. nov. is described based on the female and male. These species have some uncommon character states for the genus, such as the absence of dorsal shield seta z1, four pairs of setae on the ventri-anal shield, and a male with a h...

Sinopla humeralis Signoret, 1864 is revalidated and removed from the synonymy of Sniploa obsoletus Signoret, 1864. The first formal records from it original description and first data about its biology are provided. The type species of the genus Sinopla is discussed and the concept of the genus is expanded. The association of Sinopla humeralis with the southern beech Nothofagus Blume and it dis...

We studied the structural habitat use and the thermal ecology of Gonatodes humeralis (Guichenot, 1855) in São Luís, Maranhão, Brazil, to examine intersexual differences in the use of perch features and to simultaneously analyze reciprocal differences on thermal ecology between the sexes. Gonatodes humeralis body temperature was strongly correlated with environmental temperatures (air and substr...

We describe a new species of Stenocercus from an interandean valley of the upper Río Huallaga on the Amazonian slope of central Peru (Región Huánuco), at an elevation of 1700-1900 m. The new species differs from other Stenocercus, except S. boettgeri, S. haenschi, S. humeralis, and S. varius, by the combination of the following characters: presence of granular scales on the posterior surface of...

ABC Fax + 41 61 306 12 34 E-mail [email protected] www.karger.com © 2003 S. Karger AG, Basel 0301–0171/03/1032–0128$19.50/0 Accessible online at: www.karger.com/cgr Abstract. The karyotypes of three species of sphaerodactyl gekkonid lizards are described after conventional and differential staining. Karyotypes of Gonatodes humeralis and G. hasemani are formed by a gradual series of 32 acrocentri...