Two new myrmecophilous species of the genus Petalomium (Acari: Pygmephoroidea: Neopygmephoridae)

ALEXANDER A. KHAUSTOV

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3999.4.5

Issue: Vol. 3999 No. 4: 12 Aug. 2015

Type: Article

Published: 2015-08-12

DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3999.4.5

Page range: 549–559

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**Two new myrmecophilous species of the genus Petalomium (Acari: Pygmephoroidea: Neopygmephoridae)**

ALEXANDER A. KHAUSTOV⁺⁻

Tyumen State University, Tyumen, 10 Semakova Str., 625003 Russia.

Acari Heterostigmata systematics phoresy ants Myrmicaria Africa

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Abstract

Two new myrmecophilous species of the genus Petalomium Cross, 1965 (Acari: Pygmephoroidea: Neopygmephoridae), P. crossi sp. nov. and P. reductus sp. nov. are described from ants Myrmicaria distincta Santschi, 1925 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae) in Ethiopia. The presence and shape of the postpalpal setae in species of the genus Petalomium are discussed.