Parholaspulus hiasmaticus Petrova, 1967

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

Parholaspulus hiasmaticus Petrova, 1967 ( Fig. 5h )

Material examined. One female. As 558, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, North Pyonganbuk-do, Myohyangsan , pathway Sangwon-am , sifted material from the litter of a rocky forest, to be extracted by Moczarsky-Winkler-funnel, 09.X.1987, leg. Korsós, Z. & Ronkay, L. ( NIBR) .

Short description. Dorsal setae long, smooth and needle like, dorsal shield covered by reticulate sculptural pattern. Sternal shield with deep and irregular pits, genital shield and ventrianal shields ornamented by reticulate pattern. Epistome with three anterior processes, central one longer than two lateral ones and apically asymmetric.

Distribution. East-Russia and Korean Peninsula.

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

Figures

Fig. 5. Mesostigmatid mites from Korean Peninsula I.(a. Lasioseius tomokoae Ishikawa, 1969, dorsal view. b. ventral view. c. ventral view of Evimirus uropodinus (Berlese, 1903). d. ventral view of Macrocheles glaber (Müller, 1860). e. dorsal view of Macrocheles punctatus Ishikawa, 1967. f. ventral view. g. ventral view of Pachylaelaps ishizuchiensis Ishikawa, 1977. h. ventral view of Parholaspulus hiasmaticus Petrova, 1967. i. ventral view of Holaspina alstoni (Evans, 1956). j. epistome. k. ventral view of Gamasholaspis browingi (Bregetova & Koroleva, 1960). l. epistome. m. dorsal setae).