Description of Metagynella masani sp. n. from Kenya (Acari: Uropodina)

Abstract

The third African Metagynella Berlese, 1919 species (Metagynella masani sp. n.) is described in this paper. Original drawing and scanning micrographs of the new species are given.

New Uropodina species (Acari: Mesostigmata) and records from Kenya

“…One of the new species (Macrodinychus alveolaris Kontschán, 2006) was collected in Kenya. Recently, Kontschán (2008) has found the third African Metagynurid species in Kenya and described it as Metagynella masani Kontschán, 2008. In the recent paper a new Chelonuropoda Sellnick, 1954 species is described and new records of two already known species are presented.…”