| abstract | In present paper a new species of Hirstionyssus Fonseca is described and figured from China.
Hirstionyssus phodopi sp. nov. (figs. 1-8)
This new species close related to Hirstionyssus neosinicus Teng et Pan, 1962, but may be differenciated by the following characters: 1) the dorsal setae of the new species, F3, V, T, ET1-2, Sc and M11 heavy and long, S1-8 and D, lesser, F1, D1-7, I1-2 small, those of the latter species all small but T, Sc, ET1-2 and S1-2 longer; 2) the sternal plate of the new species with a heavily sclerotized anterior region, crescent-shaped, which absent in the latter species; 3) the spine on the venter of coxa II smaller than the inner spine on the coxa III in Histionyssus neosinicus, and those spines same in size in the new species; 4) the bared venter bearing 25 setal pairs in the new species and 33 pairs in the latter species.
Holotype ♀, allotype ♂ and paratypes 13♀♀, 4♂♂, 9 deuwnymphs were collected on Aug. 28 to Sept. 1, 1986, off Phodopus roborovskii (Satunin, 1903), from Zhongning County, 37.6° N, 105.9° E, Ningxia Hui Autonomous District. Three paratypes are deposited in the Department of Parasitology, Guiyang Medical College, other specimens deposited in the Institute of Endemic Disease Control, Ningxia Hui Autonomous District. |