Matskási István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 98. (Budapest 2006)

Kontschán, J.: Uropodina species from East Africa III. A new genus and five new species of Uropodina (Acari: Mesostigmata) from Shimba Hills (Kenya)

ANNALES HISTORICO-NATURALES MUSEI NATIONALIS HUNGARICI Volume 98 Budapest, 2006 pp. 159-171. Uropodina species from East Africa III. A new genus and five new species of Uropodina (Acari: Mesostigmata) from Shimba Hills (Kenya) J. KONTSCHÁN Systematic Zoology Research Group, Hungarian Academy of Sciences H-l 117 Budapest, Pázmány P. sétány 1/c, and Department of Zoology, Hungarian Natural History Museum H-J088, Budapest, Baross u. 13, Hungary. E-mail: kontscha@zoo.zoo.nhmus.hu Abstract - One genus (Shimbulla gen. n.) and five species (Shimbulla afra sp. n., Trigonuropoda shimbaensis sp. n., Latotutulioplitis kenyaensis sp. n., Trachyuropoda marginalia sp. n., Nenteria shimbaensis sp. n.) are described from Shimba Hills, Kenya. With 34 figures. Key words - Acari, Uropodina, new species, Shimba Hills, Kenya. INTRODUCTION The Uropodina fauna of Kenya is poorly known. In my previous papers (KONTSCHÁN 2004, 2006) several species were published from Kenya, two of them (KONTSCHÁN 2004) were found in Shimba Hills. All species described in the present paper are from Shimba Hills. Shimba Hills is a nature reserve at the southern part of Kenya near the coast of the Indian Ocean (Fig. 1). The vegetation of Shimba Hills is very important, because it holds the largest areas of coastal rain forest in East Africa (LUKE 2005). The material is stored in alcohol and deposited in the Collections of Soil Zoology of the Hungarian Natural History Museum. Setal terminology follows MAHUNKA & ZOMBORI (1985). DESCRIPTION OF TAXA Shimbulla gen. n. Type species - Shimbulla afra sp. n.