| abstract | Several species of cheyletid mites (Acari: Cheyletidae) presenting 16 of 32 known genera were revised. Eight new species and one new genus are described: Kenyacheylus trogoldytes g.n., sp.n., Ker afrotropicalis sp.n., Cheletophyes vespae sp.n., Chelacaropsis kenyensis sp.n., Hoffmannita gersoni sp.n., Bak nadchatrami sp.n., Chelacheles algericus sp.n. and Prosocheyla ripkai sp.n. Six known species are redescribed: Cheletomorpha bakeri Lawrence, 1954, Hylopecheyla bunguranensis Fain, 1972, Cheletophyes vitzthumi Oudemans, 1914, Ch. eckerti Summers et Price, 1970, Acaropsella kinshasensis Fain, 1972 and Samsinakia carabae Ramaraju et Mohanasundaram, 1999. The males of five species such as Cheletonella vespertilionis Womersley, 1941, Mexecheles virginiensis (Baker, 1949), Ker bakeri Zaher et Soliman, 1967, Chelacaropsis terrestris Corpuz-Raros et Sotto, 1977, and Eutogenes frater Volgin, 1958 as well as the female of Pavlovskicheyla philippicana Corpuz-Raros, 199 are described for the first time.Twenty-one species are synonymized and 14 species are considered as species inquirendae. Keys are provided for all studied genera. |