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The first fossil record of mites of the family Pyemotidae (Acari: Heterostigmata), with description of a new species of the genus Pyemotes from Rovno amber

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The first fossil mite of the family Pyemotidae (Acari: Heterostigmata) is recorded. Pyemotes primus sp. nov. is described from the Late Eocene of the Rovno amber from a syninclusion with the bark beetles Taphramites rovnoensis Petrov et Perkovsky, 2008. In the presence of well developed longitudinal striation on hysterosomal tergites, the new species is similar to species from scolyti group, which is characterized by parasitoidism on immature stages of bark beetles and phoresy on adult stages. P. primus differs from the closely related species P. dryas (Vitzthum, 1923), P. parviscolyti Cross et Moser, 1971, P. johnmoseri Khaustov, 2004, and P. mandelshtami Khaustov, 1998 in the subequal setae h 1 and h 2.

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  1. Nikita Botanical Gardens, National Scientific Center, Yalta, 98648, Crimea, Ukraine

    A. A. Khaustov

  2. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, ul. Bogdana Khmel’nitskogo 15, Kiev, 01601, Ukraine

    E. E. Perkovsky

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Original Russian Text © A.A. Khaustov, E.E. Perkovsky, 2010, published in Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal, 2010, No. 4, pp. 56–58.

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Khaustov, A.A., Perkovsky, E.E. The first fossil record of mites of the family Pyemotidae (Acari: Heterostigmata), with description of a new species of the genus Pyemotes from Rovno amber. Paleontol. J. 44, 418–421 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030110040088

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