Taxonomy of European Damaeidae (Acari: Oribatida) III. Species of the Kunstidamaeus tenuipes (Michael, 1885) group, with a description of Kunstidamaeus fraterculus n. sp. from East Slovakia

This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Miko, L. (2010): Taxonomy of European Damaeidae (Acari: Oribatida) III. Species of the Kunstidamaeus tenuipes (Michael, 1885) group, with a description of Kunstidamaeus fraterculus n. sp. from East Slovakia. Zootaxa 2327: 51-64, URL: http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2010/f/z02327p064f.pdfAbstractModern redescriptions and new diagnoses of three species of genus Kunstidamaeus, belonging to the " tenuipes "group - K tenuipes (Michael, 1885), K. granulatus (Willmann, 1951), K. nivalis (Kulczynski, 1902) are given. Another species of this group, K. fraterculus n.sp., is described, based on individuals from Drevenik hill in East Slovakia. The group is characterized by relatively short, at least partly barbed, slightly club-shaped sensillus.Key words: oribatid mites, Kunstidamaeus, new species, chaetotaxy