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1 February 2021 Morphological description, DNA barcodes and phylogenetic placement of a new mite species: Dinogamasus saengdaoae sp. nov. (Mesostigmata: Laelapidae) found in the acarinarium of carpenter bees in Thailand
Korrawat Attasopa, Rafael R. Ferrari, Panuwan Chantawannakul, Hans Bänziger
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Abstract

Dinogamasus saengdaoae Attasopa & Ferrari sp. nov. is described based on adult females from the abdominal pouch of females of Xylocopa tenuiscapa (Westwood) in Chiang Mai Province, Northern Thailand. The new species belongs to the D. perkinsi (Oudemans) group (sensu LeVeque) and can be distinguished from its congeners by the combination of the following characters: (1) dorsal shield covering opisthosoma neither laterally nor posteriorly; (2) opisthonotal soft cuticle with a pair of relatively long setae posteriorly; (3) setae pd1, pd2 on genu I and ad3, pd3, pl1, pl2 on both genu and tibia I conical. Maximum likelihood-based analysis of newly-generated DNA barcodes shows that the sequenced specimens of D. saengdaoaesp. nov. form a monophyletic cluster, and parsimony analysis of a previously available morphological dataset indicates that the species comprises a strongly-supported clade with D. perkinsi and D. piperi LeVeque. We provide an additional couplet for Lundqvist's key for the species of Dinogamasus Kramer to facilitate identification of D. saengdaoaesp. nov..

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Korrawat Attasopa, Rafael R. Ferrari, Panuwan Chantawannakul, and Hans Bänziger "Morphological description, DNA barcodes and phylogenetic placement of a new mite species: Dinogamasus saengdaoae sp. nov. (Mesostigmata: Laelapidae) found in the acarinarium of carpenter bees in Thailand," Systematic and Applied Acarology 26(2), 474-495, (1 February 2021). https://doi.org/10.11158/saa.26.2.11
Received: 15 October 2020; Accepted: 30 December 2020; Published: 1 February 2021
KEYWORDS
Acari
COI
key
Oriental Region
phoretic mites
Xylocopa
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