A new species Zachvatkinibates svanhovdi sp. nov. (Acari: Oribatida: Punctoribatidae) from Norway with comments on Punctoribatidae in Fennoscandia

• Published in: Acarologia
• Main Authors: Seniczak, Anna, Seniczak, Stanisław, Hagen, Snorre, Klütsch, Cornelya
• Other Authors: Department of Natural History, University Museum of Bergen, University of Bergen, Allégt. 41, 5020 Bergen, Norway., Department of Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Kazimierz Wielki University, Ossolińskich Av. 12, 85-093 Bydgoszcz, Poland., Norsk institutt for bioøkonomi=Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research (NIBIO)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2023
• Subjects: Animalia; Arthropoda; Acari; Aacriformes; oribatid mites; sexual dimorphism; leg setation; dorsal crest; sex structure; DNA barcoding; [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio]; Norway; Seta; Fennoscandia
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-03943670; https://hal.science/hal-03943670/document; https://hal.science/hal-03943670/file/Acarologia-2023-63-41-57.pdf; https://doi.org/10.24349/skz7-19nt

International audience The adults of the new species Zachvatkinibates svanhovdi A. Seniczak and S. Seniczak sp. nov. are described and illustrated from Norway, and this is the first finding of Zachvatkinibates Shaldybina, 1973 in Fennoscandia. This species is the most similar to Z. quadrivertex (Halbert, 1920), but differs from it mainly by the shape of notogastral setae, posterior tectum of notogaster and lack of postanal porose area Ap, which in Z. quadrivertex is present. In Z. svanhovdi, the prodorsal seta in is long, translamella is narrow, notogastral setae are short and distally pliable, notogastral porose areas are usually oval and of medium size, but Aa can be larger, especially in males. Dorsal crest on tarsus I is present. The cytochrome oxidase I (COI) barcodes (length: 658 bp) of five specimens of the new species are provided; the maximum variation within the species was 2.41% (p-dist). The morphology and ecology of the new species is compared with other Zachvatkinibates species. The knowledge on family Punctoribatidae in Fennoscandia is updated, and Mycobates carli (Schweizer, 1922) is first reported from Norway.