S. Mahunka szerk.: Folia Entomologica Hungarica 64. (Budapest, 2003)

Material examined - Holotype: female, Albania, loc. 36, Tucep, rock grassland, from litter and soil, 41°26.380'N 20°30.336'E, a.s.l.: 700 m, 25.10.2002, leg. Z. Erőss, Z. Fehér, J. Kontschán and D. Murányi. The material is deposited in alcohol in the Pedozoological Collection of the Hungarian Natural History Museum. Etymology - This species is named after Prof Dr Sándor Mahunka, the head of the Systematic Zoology Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He has been helping the author with the work and study of acarology. Remarks - Four species are known from the genus Crinitodiscus (including the new species) and it is important to make a short identification key to the genus for the female, because the male of the new species is unknown. This key is based on the genital shield. 1 (4) Genital shield oval, without pores 2 (3) Anterior margin of the genital shield with process C. beieri (Sellnick, 1931) 3 (2) Anterior margin of the genital shield without process C. mahunkai sp. n. 4(1) Genital shield tongue-like, with pores 5 (6) Serrate lobate processes on the anterior margin of the genital shield C rafalskii Athias-Binche et Bloszyk, 1985 6 (5) Lacking denticles lobate processes on the anterior margin of the genital shield C. pawlowksii Athias-Binche et Bloszyk, 1985 FAUNISTICAL AND ZOOGEOGRAPHICAL REMARKS Nineteen Uropodina species were found in Central and North Albania. Four species of them are new and one species (U. silvatica) is very rare, it is known only from Romania. Five species occur in Central Europe (77. arcuatus, 77. baloghi, U. shcherbakae, U. kargi, U. erlagensis) and the other eight species occur in the whole of Europe (Wisniewski & Hirschmann 1993). One of the new species {Crinitodiscus mahunkai) is very interesting, because the genus Crinitodiscus (Sellnick, 1931) is a typical east-mediterranean one. Now Central Albania is the northern border of the occurrence of this genus. AthiasBinche & Bloszyk (1985) mentioned the Albanian Alps, like the barrier of the genus Crinitodiscus). Altogether three species were known from this genus (AthiasBinche & Bloszyk 1985), which lives in southern countries. The first species - C.