TY  - JOUR
JF  - Acarologia
T1  - Insectolaelaps zvoleniensis (Wiśniewski & Hirschmann), a common but little known digamasellid mite (Acari: Mesostigmata) of subcortical microhabitats in Slovakia
VL  - 65
IS  - 2
SP  - 461
EP  - 481
PY  - 2025
SN  - 0044-586X
SN  - 2107-7207
PB  - Les Amis d'Acarologia
AU  - Mašán, Peter
UR  - https://doi.org/10.24349/uv0y-d60o
DO  - 10.24349/uv0y-d60o
DA  - 2025-05-06
ET  - 2025-05-06
KW  - Cucujus cinnaberinus
KW  - description
KW  - Digamasellidae
KW  - morphology
KW  - saproxylic species
KW  - subcortical habitat
KW  - synonymy
KW  - systematics
AB  - The adult and deutonymphal stages of Insectolaelaps zvoleniensis (Wiśniewski & Hirschmann, 1984) are redescribed from specimens collected in various subcortical microhabitats, mainly in association with the galleries of the flat bark beetle Cucujus cinnaberinus (Scopoli), which serves as a specific phoretic host of the deutonymphs. Since its description until today, the mite is known only from the males and deutonymphs originally found in central Slovakia. Multidendrolaelaps putte Huhta & Karg, 2010, described only from females and deutonymphs from Finland, is proposed as a new junior synonym of I. zvoleniensis. Insectolaelaps zvoleniensis is reported for the second time from Slovakia, although it is one of the most common mesostigmatic mites occurring under the bark of unhealthy or dead trees in a large part of the country. The species is unusual in that the weakly sclerotized integument of the female apparently divides the sternal shield longitudinally into two halves and the segments of the male legs IV are not armed with spurs or spines ‒ features not previously found in Insectolaelaps Shcherbak, 1980.
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