Uropoda similihamulifera Hiramatsu, 1979

Kontschan, Jeno, Park, Sun Jae, Lim, Jae Won, Hwang, Jeong Mi & Seo, Hong Yul, 2014, Contribution to the mite (Acari) fauna of the Korean Peninsula, Journal of Species Research 3 (1), pp. 63-78 : 72

Uropoda similihamulifera Hiramatsu, 1979 ( Fig. 6j )

Material examined. Two females. As 224 Two females ( NIBR). As 224 Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Hwanghaebuk-do, Bagyeonsan, San-chon tong, about 20 km SE from Gyeseong , margin of stream bed, ant nest under stone, 08. VI.1970, leg. Mahunka, S. & Steinmann, H.

Short description. All dorsal and ventral setae apically wide and bulbiform. Dorsal shield gibbous, ornamented by oval pits. Marginal shield divided into platelets. Genital shield scutiform with oval pits on its surface.

Distribution. Japan and Korean Peninsula.

Notes to the species. This species is recorded firstly in our previous paper ( Kontschán et al., 2014).

Figures

Fig. 6. Mesostigmatid mites from Korean Peninsula II.(a. ventral view of Podocinum tsushimanum Ishikawa, 1970. b. sculptural pattern. c. epistome. d. ventral view of Neoparasitus scleoides Ishikawa, 1969. e. spatuliform setae situated on membranous cuticle. f. dorsal view of Veigaia ochracea Bregetova, 1961. g. epistome. h. dorsal view of Trachytes koreana Kontschán et al., 2014. i. ventral view. j. dorsal view of Uropoda similihamulifera Hiramatsu, 1979).