Caribothyrus barbatusn. gen., n. sp., a new holothyrid mite (Acari: Neothyridae) from Dominican Republic

Abstract

A new holothyrid genus and species (Caribothyrus barbatus n. gen., n. sp.) was found in the Dominican Republic (Caribbean Islands). Description, drawings and photos of the genus and species are given.

Holothyrids and ticks: new insights from larval morphology and DNA sequencing, with the description of a new species of Diplothyrus (Parasitiformes: Neothyridae)

“…The mite suborder Holothyrida is small, currently consisting of 13 genera arranged into 3 families, the Allothyridae, Holothyridae, and Neothyridae (Lehtinen 1995(Lehtinen , 1999Kontschan and Mahunka 2004), although a considerably larger species-level diversity is suspected, at least for Allothyridae (Walter and Proctor 1998;Walter 2009). …”