New species and biological data for the neotropical genus Hispiniphis (Acari: Mesostigmata: Melicharidae) associated with hispine beetles, genus Cephaloleia, in unfurled leaves of Heliconia
New species and biological data for the neotropical genus Hispiniphis (Acari: Mesostigmata: Melicharidae) associated with hispine beetles, genus Cephaloleia, in unfurled leaves of Heliconia
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新热带地区Hispiniphis属（蜱螨亚纲：Mesostigmata：Melicharidae）的新物种和生物学数据，与Heliconia展开叶子中的Hispine甲虫（Cephaloleia属）有关
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2016
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E. Lindquist
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M. L. Moraza;E. Lindquist
摘要本文记述了四个新种，这些新种都是最初描述该属的依据，并与硬毛壳属不同种类的甲虫相联系。给出了所描述的Hispiniphis和Makarovaia的检索表，这两个已知的属的成虫和幼虫都在卷叶硬毛虫的鞘翅下发现。讨论了一些特化刚毛的个体发育加速和复制的问题。幼虫分娩的证据，以及小尺寸的成年女性生殖器区域和相对较大的幼虫之间的问题差异，被考虑在内。讨论了在这些螨类中向较小体型进化的趋势。文中还提出了这些螨类寄主偏好的进一步证据，并指出在新热带地区可能存在与硬毛甲虫有关的种类繁多的这些螨类。
Abstract Four new species of mites of the genus Hispiniphis are described, all among those upon which the original description of the genus was based, associated with beetles of different species of the hispine genus Cephaloleia. A key is given to the described species of Hispiniphis and Makarovaia, the known two genera whose adults and immatures are found under the elytra of rolled-leaf hispine beetles. Aspects of ontogenetic acceleration and duplication of some idiosomatic setae are discussed. Evidence of larviparity, along with problematical differences between small dimensions of the adult female genital area and a relatively large larva, are considered. An evolutionary trend towards smaller body sizes among these mites is discussed. Further evidence of host preferences by these mites is presented, along with indications that there may be a vast diversity of these mites associated with hispine beetles in the Neotropical Region.