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    Fossil labidostomatid mites (Prostigmata: Labidostommatidae) from Baltic amber

    Dunlop J.A. and Bertrand M.

    2011 - Volume: 51 Issue: 2 pages: 191-198

    DOI: 10.1051/acarologia/20112006

    Date received: 2011-01-17, Date accepted: 2011-03-28, Date published: 2011-06-30


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    Keywords: Acari, labidostomatid mite, taxonomy, fossil, Eocene, Baltic amber fossils

    Unequivocal fossil records of the mite family Labidostommatidae (Acari: Prostigmata: Trombidiformes) are described from Eocene Baltic amber. These two modern-looking specimens can be assigned to the extant genus Labidostomma Kramer, 1879 and are formally described here as Labidostomma paleoluteum sp. nov. Interestingly, the fossil specimens are associated in the amber piece with collembolans - a group on which modern labidostomatids readily prey - and other arthropods inhabiting upper soil layers.


    Photos: Varroa destructor (Varroidae) on a honey bee. Low temperature -Scanning electron microscopy photograph. Material collected and fixed for LT-SEM: J. Pettis, USDA-ARS-Bee Lab. and R. Ochoa, USDA-ARS-SEL; LT-SEM photo: E. Erbe and C. Pooley, USDA-ARS-CEMU © USDA; Petrobia harti (Tetranychidae) © INRA - Alain Migeon; Dermanyssus gallinae (Dermanysssidae) © Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire de Lyon – Lise Roy; Adult Ixodes sp. (Ixodidae) engorging on an Atlantic puffin Fratercula arctica © Andy Darrington; Panonychus ulmi (Tetranychidae): hatching of a winter egg © Université de Lausanne – Centre de microscopie électronique – Cazelles

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