New records of Acari from the sub-Antarctic Prince Edward Islands

• Published in: Polar Biology
• Main Authors: Ueckermann, E. A., Marshall, David J., Pugh, Philip J. A., Theron, P. D., Coetzee, L., Gremmen, N. J. M., O’connor, B. M.
• Other Authors: Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI USA, US, Biosystematics Division, Plant Protection Research Institute, Pretoria, South Africa, ZA, Department of Zoology, University of Durban-Westville, Private Bag X54001, Durban 4000, South Africa e-mail: [e-mail], Fax: [phone] , ZA, National Museum, Bloemfontein, South Africa, ZA, Zoology Department, Potchefstroom University, Potchefstroom, South Africa, ZA, British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Cambridge CB3 0ET, UK, GB, Bureau Data-Analyse Ecologie, Dwarsdrift 24, 7981 AP Diever, The Netherlands, NL, Ann Arbor
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer-Verlag; Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1999
• Subjects: Legacy; Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Science; Antarctic; Indian; Antarc*; Polar Biology; Prince Edward Islands; Mite
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/42107; https://doi.org/10.1007/s003000050338

Sixty species of Acari are recorded from the sub-Antarctic Marion and Prince Edward Islands (the Prince Edward archipelago). Twenty of the 45 species collected on recent expeditions are new and currently undescribed. Other new taxa include a family of Mesostigmata, four new genera, and the first sub-Antarctic records of Cillibidae (Mesostigmata) and Eryngiopus (Prostigmata). Fifteen of the 31 species previously reported from the islands are confirmed, although eight of the previous accounts remain doubtful. The fauna, which shows a distinction between the shoreline and terrestrial components, comprises endemic, South Indian Ocean Province and sub-Antarctic mite species. Peer Reviewed http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/42107/1/300-21-2-84_90210084.pdf