Rhodacaridae Oudemans, 1902

Rueda-Ramirez, Diana, Castilho, Raphael C. & De Moraes, Gilberto J., 2013, Mites of the superfamily Rhodacaroidea (Acari: Mesostigmata) from Colombia, with a key for the world species of Desectophis Karg (Ologamasidae), Zootaxa 3734 (5), pp. 521-535 : 528

Family Rhodacaridae Oudemans, 1902

Genus Multidentorhodacarus Karg

Multidentorhodacarus Karg, 2000b: 144 .

Rhodacarus (Multidentorhodacarus) Shcherbak, 1980: 72 (nomen nudum). Rhodacarus (Multidentorhodacarus) .—Karg, 1996: 170 (nomen nudum). Rhodacarus (Multidentrhodacarus) [sic].—Karg, 1998: 186 (nomen nudum). Multidentorhodacarus .—Karg, 2000a: 259 (nomen nudum).

Multidentorhodacarus .—Castilho et al., 2012a: 36; Castilho et al., 2012b: 32. Type species: Rhodacarus denticulatus Berlese, 1920 , by original designation.

Notes on the genus. As mentioned by Castilho et al. (2012a) and Castilho et al. (2012b), the name Multidentorhodacarus was not made available by Shcherbak (1980) because a type species was not fixed for the subgenus (International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, Article 13.3). The name only became available when Karg (2000b) published a description of Multidentorhodacarus as a genus, stating its type species to be M. denticulatus (Berlese, 1920) . This genus was characterised by Castilho et al. (2012a, 2012b). Nine of the 18 currently known species of Multidentorhodacarus , including the new species described here, were described from Neotropical countries, namely Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba and Ecuador (Karg, 1998, 2000a, 2000b, 2000c; Karg & Schorlemmer, 2009; Castilho & Moraes, 2010); others have a very scattered distribution: Indonesia, Iran, New Caledonia, South Africa, Tajikistan, Uganda and USA (Berlese, 1920; Ryke, 1962; Loots, 1969; Shcherbak, 1980; Jordaan et al., 1988; Karg, 1996; Castilho et al., 2012a). These small and inconspicuous mites that could be much more widespread than presently known.