TY  - JOUR
JF  - Acarologia
T1  - A new species of Stenosternum (Mesostigmata: Antennophorina: Hoplomegistidae), the first trigynaspid mite from Korea, including the description of immature stages
VL  - 65
IS  - 2
SP  - 280
EP  - 305
PY  - 2025
SN  - 0044-586X
SN  - 2107-7207
PB  - Les Amis d'Acarologia
AU  - Oh, Jaeseok
AU  - Joharchi, Omid
AU  - Lee, Seunghwan
AU  - Jung, Chuleui
UR  - https://doi.org/10.24349/9pgz-fu4j
DO  - 10.24349/9pgz-fu4j
DA  - 2025-04-09
ET  - 2025-04-09
KW  - Trigynaspida
KW  - Leptaulax koreanus
KW  - Stenosternum leptaulax n. sp.
KW  - phoretic mite
KW  - first report
KW  - ontogeny
AB  - Hoplomegistidae are large trigynaspid mites found as adults on passalid beetles in Africa, Southeast Asia, and Central and South America. The family comprises ten species, of which only two species occur in Southeast Asia, both described recently from the Southern part of China. Here, we describe a new species, Stenosternum leptaulax n. sp., found on Leptaulax koreanus (Coleoptera: Passalidae) from the Republic of Korea. This is the first report of a trigynaspid mite from Korea. Our description also includes the larva, protonymph and deutonymph, representing the first description of the immatures for this family.
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