THE DIVERSITY, MITE COMMUNITIES, AND HOST SPECIFICITY OF PYGMEPHOROID MITES (ACARI: PYGMEPHOROIDEA) ASSOCIATED WITH ANTS IN WESTERN SIBERIA, RUSSIA
Journal: Acarina
Year: 2016

This work discusses the diversity of mite communities along with host and attachment site specificities of myrmecophilous pygmephoroid mites (Acari: Pygmephoroidea) associated with most abundant ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Western Siberia. The researchers provide keys to myrmecophilous pygmephoroid mites of the families Neopygmephoridae and Scutacaridae of the Palaearctic and the keys to world species of the genera Caesarodispus Mahunka, 1977, and Unguidispus Mahunka, 1977 (Microdispidae).