Contribution to systematics of the genus Eustigmaeus (Acari: Stigmaeidae) of Russia

Abstract

Two new species of Eustigmaeus: E. bochkovi n. sp., collected from rotten log in Khabarovsky Kray, and E. grandis n. sp., collected from soil in Primorsky Kray, are described from Russia. The genus Paravillersia Kuznetsov, 1978 is considered as a junior synonym of Eustigmaeus Berlese, 1910; Paravillersia grata Kuznetsov, 1978 is considered as a junior synonym of Eustigmaeus ottavii (Berlese, 1910), E. ioanninensis Kapaxidi and Papadoulis, 1999 is considered as a junior synonym of E. pinnata Kuznetsov, 1977a, and Paravillersia jamaliensis Khaustov, 2014 moved to the genus Villersia Oudemans, 1927.