A new species of the subgenus Cosmogalumna (Acari: Oribatida: Galumnidae: Galumna) from Japan
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Galumnid mites, Morphology, SEM, subgenus Cosmogalumna, Taxonomy, Zoobank: A84377DB-2836-4D84-8821-BCE9A3DC56F9Abstract
A new species of oribatid mites, Galumna (Cosmogalumna) kirishimaensis n. sp., is described from the soil and litter of a Cryptomeria forest, Kirishima City, Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern part of Japan. The new species is morphologically most similar to Galumna (Cosmogalumna) praeoccupata Subías, 2004 and Galumna (Cosmogalumna) areticulata Ermilov, Sandmann, Klarner, Widyastuti & Scheu, 2015, but it differs from these species in bifurcate lamellar lines, distinctive patterns suggestive of a neural network on the middle part of notogaster and ventral plate, several nodules (Aa) or one central nodule (A1, A2 and A3) on the surface of porose areas, conspicuous granular ornamentation on the pteromorphs, and conspicuous linear structure on the middle part on the genital plates.
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