Macrocheles mammifer Berlese, 1918

Dwibadra, Dhian, Takaku, Gen, Ôhara, Masahiro & Ueda, Akira, 2014, Mites of the Family Macrochelidae (Acari: Gamasida) from Sungai Wain, East Kalimantan, Indonesia, Species Diversity 19 (1), pp. 43-57 : 47

Macrocheles mammifer Berlese, 1918

Macrocheles mammifer Berlese, 1918: 146 , 162, 171.

Holostaspis polyornata Turk, 1948: 105 .

Macrocheles pavlovskii Bregetova and Koroleva, 1960: 83 ; Karg 1971: 140.

Macrocheles postneri Krauss, 1970: 28 .

Macrocheles tridentatus: Delfinado and Baker 1975: 53 , not Pearse and Wharton 1936 in Pearse et al. 1936: 473 (misidentification).

Macrocheles mammifer: Bregetova 1977: 363 ; Wallace 1986: 11; Krantz and Whitaker 1988: 236.

Material examined. Km 22: 1 female, Imperata cylindrica grassland, 23 December 2006, ex residue in vial.

Diagnosis. Dorsal shield widely rounded, reticulate and micropunctured; lateral and marginal dorsal setae plumose distally except for s2, s6, and r4; 8 pairs of dorsocentral and mediolateral dorsal setae (j2, j5, j6, J2, J5, z1, z5, and z6) smooth and needle-like; j1 brush-like, z2 pilose distally; ventral shield sculptured; sternal shield sparsely and irregularly punctured; sculptural lines absent; surface of epigyneal and ventrianal shield reticulate; ventrianal shield wider than long, with micropunctation in lateral areas.

Habitat. This species has been collected from scarab beetles and decaying substrates.

Distribution. Indonesia (Kalimantan; new record), Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Israel, Australia, Micronesia, Spain, Germany, Poland, Slovakia, Russia, USA, Trinidad, Cuba, and Argentina.