TY  - JOUR
JF  - Acarologia
T1  - Vitzthumegistidae, fam. nov.: trigynaspid mites on terrestrial hermit crabs (Anactinotrichida: Mesostigmata: Trigynaspida)
VL  - 55
IS  - 2
SP  - 201
EP  - 208
PY  - 2015
SN  - 0044-586X
SN  - 2107-7207
PB  - Les Amis d'Acarologia
AU  - Kim, C.-M.
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1051/acarologia/20152161
DO  - 10.1051/acarologia/20152161
DA  - 2015-06-30
ET  - 2015-06-30
KW  - Acari
KW  - Parasitiformes
KW  - Antennophoriae
KW  - Cercomegistiae
KW  - Cercomegistoidea
KW  - nomen nudum
KW  - nomen novum
KW  - mite-host association
KW  - Coenobita
AB  - A new family of cercomegistoid mesostigmatid mites, Vitzthumegistidae, including the species of Vitzthumegistus paguroxenus (Andre, 1937b) (= Physalozercon paguroxenus Andre, 1937b); V. latronis (Vitzthum, 1937) (= Cyclothorax latronis Vitzthum, 1937); and V. andrei (a nomen novum for Cyclothorax carcinicola von Frauenfeld, 1868, sensu Vitzthum, 1928), has been proposed. This family differs from the Cercomegistidae by the following characters: a holodorsal shield, absence of presternal shield, weakly sclerotized or vestigial (neither paired nor fragmented) sternal shield in the female, a smooth anterior and lateral margin of gnathotectum, and heavily branched (polyramous) hypostomal setae 1 (hs1) in the adult. The Vitzthumegistidae fam. nov. becomes biologically a unique group within the Trigynaspida, in which the members exhibit associations with paguroid hermit crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Paguroidea) in the Indo-Pacific region. A key to species of the Vitzthumegistus is provided.
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