Podocinum tsushimanum, Ishikawa, 1970

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 : 70

Podocinum tsushimanum Ishikawa, 1970 ( Fig. 6a, b, c )

Material examined. As 452, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, North Pyeonganbuk-do , Myohyangsan , sites litter taken from mixed forest under Unsam waterfall to be extracted in Moczarsky-Winkler apparatus, 17. VII.1982, leg. Forró, L. & Ronkay, L.

Short description. Dorsal shield covered by small round- ed and triangular knobs which organized in pentagramlike web-structures. Majority of dorsal setae marginally pilose, one pair on apical area and several pairs on caudal area are very long. Epistome with three apical branches, these branches long and apically serrate.

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).