The genusProtogamasellusKarg (Acari) with descriptions of new species and subspecies from the Ethiopian Region

First Record of <i>Protogamasellus mica</i> (Athias-Henriot) (Acari: Mesostigmata: Ascidae) from Japan, with a Description of the Male

“…The male spermatodactyl of P. mica is similar to that of Protofurcatus bifurcalis (Genis, Loots and Ryke, 1967), previously classified as belonging to the genus Protogamasellus. Both spermatodactyls bend ventrally at the middle of a movable digit, and attenuate distally.…”

“…This species has been recorded from North Africa (Athias-Henriot, 1961), Europe (Evans, 1982), Russia (Ghilarov and Bregetova, 1977), the U.S.A. (Walter and Kaplan, 1990), Australia (Halliday et al, 1998), Brazil (Mineiro et al, 2009), and Iran (Kazemi and Rajaei, 2013) as P. mica. Additionally, the species has been recorded from Europe, Asia, and South Africa under the name P. primitivus (Karg, 1962(Karg, , 2007Genis et al, 1967). This is the first record of the species from Japan.…”