TWO NEW SPECIES AND A NEW RECORD OF SPATULAPHORUS (ACARI: PYGMEPHORIDAE) PHORETIC ON SCARAB BEETLES (COLEOPTERA: SCARABAEIDAE) FROM FRENCH GUIANA
Journal: Acarina
Year: 2021

Two new species, Spatulaphorus dignus sp. n. and S. porosus sp. n. (Acari: Pygmephoridae), collected from scarab beetles Oxysternon durantoni and Coprophanaeus jasius, respectively, are described from French Guiana. Spatulaphorus brasiliensis Khaustov and Frolov, collected from the beetle Dichotomius borreus, is recorded from French Guiana for the first time. A key to the world species of the genus Spatulaphorus is also provided.