Macrocheles kalimantanensis Hartini and Takaku 2003
Creators: name: Dwibadra, Dhian
name: Takaku, Gen
name: Ôhara, Masahiro
name: Ueda, Akira
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Mesostigmata
Macrochelidae
Macrocheles
Macrocheles kalimantanensis

description: Macrocheles kalimantanensis Hartini and Takaku, 2003
Macrocheles kalimantanensis Hartini and Takaku, 2003 in Hartini et al. 2003: 310–312, figs 1–2.
Material examined. SWPF: 25 females, 16 December 2006, ex Sisyphus thoracicus Sharp, 1875, Onthophagus pasificus, O. borneensis, and residue in vials; 19 females, 17 December 2006, ex O. semicupreus, O. schwaneri, O. borneensis, Onthophagus sp., and residue in vials; 7 females, 18 December 2006, ex S. thoracicus, O. waterstradti, and O. pastillatus; 27 females, 20 December 2006, ex O. obscurior, O. cervicapra, Paragymnopleurus maurus, Catharsius dayacus, and residue in vials; 38 females, 14 December 2007, ex O. waterstradti, O. incisus, O. schwaneri, O. cervicapra, O. vulpes, O. semicupreus, C. dayacus, P. maurus, and residue in vials; 16 females, 15 December 2007, ex C. dayacus, P. maurus, and O. schwaneri; 5 females, 15–20 December 2007, ex Copris sp.; 4 females, 20–25 December 2007, ex residue in vials; 48 females, 11 December 2008, ex O. borneensis and residue in vials; 20 females, 12 December 2008, ex O. obscurior, O. borneensis, O. pastillatus, S. thoracicus, P. maurus, O. semicupreus, and O. bonorae Zunino, 1976; 6 females, 5 December 2008, ex residue in vials; 1 female, 7 December 2008, ex residue in vials; 10 females, 10 December 2008, ex residue in vials. Km 12: 8 females, secondary forest, 15–20 December 2007, ex O. schwaneri. Km 23: 1 female, Imperata cylindrica grassland, 17–22 December 2007, ex residue in vial; 1 female, Acacia mangium plantation, 17–22 December 2007, ex residue in vial. Km 24: 1 female, A. mangium plantation, 21 December 2006, ex Caccobius unicornis (Fabricius, 1798); 21 females, burned secondary forest, 21 December 2006, ex O. dux, P. maurus, and residue in vial; 16 females, secondary forest, 21 December 2006, ex O. schwaneri, O. aurifex, O. vulpes, C. dayacus, and residue in vial; 12 females, natural forest, 21 December 2006, ex O. schwaneri, C. dayacus, and residue in vial; 10 females, burned secondary forest, 26 December 2006, ex residue in vials; 6 females, I. cylindrica grassland, 26 December 2006, ex residue in vials; 32 females, A. mangium plantation, 26 December 2006, ex O. limbatus and residue in vials; 14 females, natural forest, 26 December 2006, ex O. cervicapra, O. schwaneri, O. rudis, and residue in vials; 18 females, burned ridge, 14–19 December 2007, ex C. dayacus, P. maurus, O. schwaneri, and residue in vials; 5 females, burned ridges, 19–24 December 2007, ex residue in vials; 16 females, burned ridges, 6–11 December 2008, ex residue in vials; 20 females, A. mangium plantation, 7–12 December 2008, ex C. renaudpauliani and residue in vials; 3 females, I. cylindrica grassland, 7–12 December 2008, ex residue in vials. Km 29: 51 females, 22 December 2006, ex O. schwaneri, O. cervicapra, C. renaudpauliani, and residue in vials. Km 38: 3 females, 16–21 December 2007, ex residue in vials.
Additional specimens examined, deposited in MZB: Sumatra: 1 female, 350 m alt., Mt. Leuser, Ketambe National Park, Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam, 4 September 1989, Habley and D. C. Darling leg., ex Onthophagus diabolicus Harold, 1877; 9 females, Biology Research Forest, Andalas University, Padang, West Sumatra, 3–7 November 2001, S. Hartini and G. Takaku leg., ex Catharsius sp. and Onthophagus sp. Bali: 1 female, Pancasari, Sukasada, Buleleng, 3 December 1999, S. Hartini and G. Takaku leg., ex Catharsius sp. Sulawesi: 1 female, Tountimomoro, North Sulawesi, 27 November 1999, S. Hartini and G. Takaku leg., ex Copris sp.
Diagnosis. Female. Dorsal shield oval, attenuate posteriorly; j1 plumose in distal half; z1 simple; j5 and z5 slightly pilose or simple; j6 simple; z6 and J2 simple but in some cases slightly pilose; other dorsal setae pilose; l. ang., l. arc., l. m. t., and l. o. p. with punctations along lines.
Habitat. This species has been collected from the scarab beetle genera Catharsius, Copris, Microcopris, Onthophagus, Paragymnopleurus, and Sisyphus.
Distribution. Indonesia [Kalimantan; Sumatra, Bali, and Sulawesi (new records)].
description: Published as part of Dwibadra, Dhian, Takaku, Gen, Ôhara, Masahiro & Ueda, Akira, 2014, Mites of the Family Macrochelidae (Acari: Gamasida) from Sungai Wain, East Kalimantan, Indonesia, pp. 43-57 in Species Diversity 19 (1) on pages 46-47, DOI: 10.12782/sd.19.1.043, http://zenodo.org/record/4584938