Abstract
The morphological ontogeny of Ctenobelba brevipilosa Mahunka, 1964 is described and illustrated for the first time; this species was investigated since its description mainly in ecological aspect. The adult instar is of medium size, with setiform bothridial seta, bearing 11–17 anterior branches, and with short notogastral setae. Seta d is absent from genua I–III and all tibia. The bothridial seta of juveniles is setiform and barbed, and prodorsal and gastronotal setae are short, except of medium sized ro. Nymphs are quadrideficient and eupheredermous, i.e. they carry the exuvial scalps of previous instars. Anal valves of protonymph and deutonymph have two pairs of alveolar setae, which is rare in Brachypylina. In the juvenile instars, seta d on all genua and tibiae is present.
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Seniczak, S., Seniczak, A., Kaczmarek, S. & Graczyk, R. (2013) External morphology and ontogeny of three species of Damaeidae (Acari: Oribatida). International Journal of Acarology, 39 (4), 293–310.
https://doi.org/10.1080/01647954.2013.783107
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https://doi.org/10.3989/graellsia.2004.v60.iExtra.218
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https://doi.org/10.11158/saa.22.1.8
Balogh, J. (1943) Magyarország Páncélosatkái (Conspectus Oribateorum Hungariae). Matematikai és természettudományi közlemenyek, 39 (5), 1–202.
Banks, N. (1947) On some Acarina from North Carolina. Psyche, Cambridge, 54, 110–141.
https://doi.org/10.1155/1947/70181
Berlese, A. (1908) Elenco di generi e specie nuovi di Acari. Redia, 5, 1–15.
Berlese, A. (1916) Centuria terza di Acari nuovi. Redia, 12, 283–338.
Călugăr, A., Ivan, O., Vasiliu, N. & Vasiliu, M. (2006) Diversity and distribution of the oribatid and gamasid (Acari: Oribatida, Gamasina) fauna in forest ecosystems of Siret meadow, Anuarul Complexului Muzeal Bucovina, Suceava, 18–19, 157–173.
Călugăr, M. & Vasiliu, N. (1984) Au sujet du genre Mongaillardia Grandjean, 1961 (Acarina: Oribatei). Acarologia, 25 (1), 81–93.
Chen, J., Norton, R.A., Behan-Pelletier, V.M. & Wang, H.F. (2004) Analysis of the genus Gymnodampia (Acari: Oribatida) with redescription of G. setata and description of two new species from North America. The Canadian Entomologist, 136, 793–821.
https://doi.org/10.4039/n04-017
Csiszár, J. & Jeleva, M. (1962) Oribatid mites (Acari) from Bulgarian soils. Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 8 (3–4), 273–301.
Grandjean, F. (1949) Formules anales, gastronotiques, génitales et aggénitales du développement numériques des poils chez les Oribates. Bulletin de la Société zoologique de France, 74, 201–225.
Grandjean, F. (1953) Essai de classification des Oribates (Acariens). Bulletin de la Société zoologique de France, 78, 421–446.
Grandjean, F. (1965) Complément à mon travail de 1953 sur la classification des Oribates. Acarologia, 7, 713–734.
Ivan, O. & Vasiliu, N. (2006) Diversity and distribution of the oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) in the forest ecosystems from the middle section of the Prut riverside, Scientific Annals of the Danube Delta Institute, Tulcea, 12, 55–64.
Ivan, O. & Vasiliu, N. (2010) Fauna of oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from the Movile Cave area (Dobrogea, Romania), Travaux de l`Institut de Spéologie “Émile Racovitza”, 49, 29–40.
Kulczyński, V. (1902) Species Oribatinarum (Oudms.) (Damaeinarum Michael) in Galicia collectae. Bulletin International de L’Académie des Sciences de Cracovie, Classe des sciences mathématiques et naturelles, Cracov, 2, 89–96.
Łomnicki, A. (2010) Wprowadzenie do statystyki dla przyrodników. PWN, Warsaw, 281 pp.
Mahunka, S. (1964) Über die Gattung Ctenobelba Balogh, 1943 (Acari: Oribatei). Opuscula Zoologica Budapest, 5 (2), 223–228.
Mahunka, S. (1977) Ctenobelba csiszarae sp. n. und einige Bemerkungen über die Gattung Ctenobelba Balogh, 1943 (Acari: Oribatida). Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici, 69, 301–304.
Mahunka, S. & Mahunka-Papp, L. (2004) A Catalogue of the Hungarian oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida). In: Csuzdi, Cs. & Mahunka, S. (Eds.), Pedozoologica Hungarica. No. 2. Hungarian Natural History Museum and Systematic Zoology, Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, pp. 1–363.
Michael, A.D. (1882) Further notes on British Oribatidae. Journal of the Royal Society, London, Series 2, 2, 1–18.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2818.1882.tb00175.x
Miko, L. (1990) Contributions to the Fauna of oribatid mites (Acarina, Oribatida) of Slovakia. IV. Czechoslovak oribatids of genus Ctenobelba Balogh, 1943. Biologia, Bratislava, 45 (10), 769–780.
Miko, L. & Travé, J. (1996) Hungarobelbidae n. fam., with a description of Hungarobelba pyrenaica n.sp. (Acarina, Oribatida). Acarologia, 37, 133–155.
Norton, R.A. (1978) The genus Damaeus Koch (Acarina: Oribatei) in the eastern United States. Acarologia, 19 (1977), 331–353.
Norton, R.A. (1980) Generic concepts in the Damaeidae (Acari, Oribatei). Part II. Acarologia, 21 (3–4), 496–513.
Norton, R.A. & Behan-Pelletier, V.M. (2009) Suborder Oribatida. In: Krantz, G.W. & Walter, D.E. (Eds.), A Manual of Acarology. 3rd Edition. Texas Tech University Press, Lubbock, Texas, pp. 430–564.
Norton, R.A. & Behan-Pelletier, V.M. (2020) Two unusual new species of Caleremaeus (Acari: Oribatida) from eastern North America, with redescription of C. retractus and reevaluation of the genus. Acarologia, 60 (2), 398–448.
https://doi.org/10.24349/acarologia/20204375
Norton, R.A. & Ermilov, S.G. (2014) Catalogue and historical overview of juvenile instars of oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida). Zootaxa, 3833 (1), 1–132.
https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3833.1.1
Okayama, T. (1980) Taxonomic studies on the Japanese oribatid mites wearing nymphal exuviae. II. Basilobelba parmata, sp. nov. Annotationes zoologicae japonenses, 53 (4), 285–296.
https://doi.org/10.2476/asjaa.29.83
Pérez-Iñigo, C. & Peña, M.A. (1997) Acaros oribátidos (Acari, Oribatei) de Gran Canaria (III). Boletín de la Asociación Española de Entomología, 21, 165–183.
Seniczak, A. & Seniczak, S. (2019) Morphological ontogeny of Caleremaeus monilipes (Acari: Oribatida: Caleremaeidae), with comments on Caleremaeus Berlese. Systematic & Applied Acarology, 24 (11), 1995–2009.
https://doi.org/10.11158/saa.24.11.3
Seniczak, S., Ivan, O. & Seniczak, A. (2020a) Morphological ontogeny of Damaeolus ornatissimus (Acari: Oribatida: Damaeolidae), with comments on Damaeolus Paoli. Systematic & Applied Acarology, 25 (3), 459–478.
https://doi.org/10.11158/saa.25.3.7
Seniczak, S., Ivan, O., Kaczmarek, S. & Seniczak, A. (2020) Morphological ontogeny of Ctenobelba pilosella (Acari: Oribatida: Ctenobelbidae), with comments on Ctenobelba Balogh. Systematic & Applied Acarology. [in press]
Seniczak, S., Kowalski, J., Kaczmarek, S. & Seniczak, A. (2020c) Morphological ontogeny of Amerus polonicus (Acari: Oribatida: Ameridae), and comments on Amerus Berlese. Systematic & Applied Acarology, 25 (10), 1840–1856.
https://doi.org/10.11158/saa.25.10.8
Seniczak, S. & Seniczak, A. (2011) Differentiation of external morphology of Damaeidae (Acari: Oribatida) in the light of ontogeny of three species. Zootaxa, 2775 (1), 1–36.
https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2775.1.1
Seniczak, S. & Seniczak, A. (2013) Morphology of juvenile stages and ontogeny of three species of Damaeidae (Acari: Oribatida). International Journal of Acarology, 39 (2), 160–179.
https://doi.org/10.1080/01647954.2012.747567
Seniczak, S., Seniczak, A. & Kaczmarek, S. (2016) Morphological ontogeny, distribution and ecology of Damaeus torquisetosus and Epidamaeus puritanicus (Acari: Oribatidae: Damaeidae). Systematic & Applied Acarology, 21 (4), 471–497.
https://doi.org/10.11158/saa.21.4.8
Seniczak, S., Seniczak, A., Kaczmarek, S. & Graczyk, R. (2013) External morphology and ontogeny of three species of Damaeidae (Acari: Oribatida). International Journal of Acarology, 39 (4), 293–310.
https://doi.org/10.1080/01647954.2013.783107
Subías, L.S. (2004) Listado sistemático, sinonímico y biogeográfico de los Ácaros Oribátidos (Acariformes, Oribatida) del mundo (1758−2002). Graellsia, 60 (número extraordinario), 3−305.
https://doi.org/10.3989/graellsia.2004.v60.iextra.218
Subías, L.S. (2020 updated) Listado sistemático, sinonímico y biogeográfico de los Ácaros Oribátidos (Acariformes, Oribatida) del mundo (1758−2002). Graellsia, 60 (número extraordinario), 3−305, 15ª actualización, 527 pp. Available from: http://bba.bioucm.es/cont/docs/RO_1.pdf (accessed 30 September 2020)
https://doi.org/10.3989/graellsia.2004.v60.iExtra.218