New faunistical data on oribatid mites from the Philippines, with a description of a new species of the genus Trachyoribates (Acari, Oribatida, Haplozetidae)

Sergey G. Ermilov; Leonila Corpuz-Raros; Jeremy Naredo; Orlando Eusebio

doi:10.17109/AZH.68.3.217.2022

Sergey G. Ermilov Institute of Environmental and Agricultural Biology (X-BIO), Tyumen State University, Lenina str. 25, Tyumen 625000, Russia https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0913-131X
Leonila Corpuz-Raros Institute of Weed Science, Entomology and Plant Pathology, College of Agriculture and Food Science, and Museum of Natural History, University of the Philippines Los Banos, College, 4031 Laguna, Philippines https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0562-0607
Jeremy Naredo Entomological Museum, Museum of Natural History, University of the Philippines Los Baños, College, 4031 Laguna, Philippines https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3304-3587
Orlando Eusebio Entomological Museum, Museum of Natural History, University of the Philippines Los Baños, College, 4031 Laguna, Philippines https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3115-6035

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17109/AZH.68.3.217.2022

Keywords: Oriental region, Sibuyan Island, fauna, list of taxa, taxonomy, morphology

Abstract

This paper presents a list of 78 species/subspecies of 50 genera and 27 families of soil-inhabiting oribatid mites (Oribatida) collected on Sibuyan Island, Philippines; of these, two species and one genus are recorded in the Oriental region for the first time, and 14 species/subspecies and two genera are recorded in the Philippine fauna for the first time. Trachyoribates insularis sp. n. (Haplozetidae) is described on the basis of adults.

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