The genus Boletoglyphus had been previously known from only four species in the Holarctic region. We have found twelve new species from the Oriental, Australian, Afrotropical, and Neotropical regions. Species known from feeding stages all inhabit fruiting bodies of polypore fungi. Heteromorphic deutonymphs are phoretic mainly on tenebrionid beetles of the tribe Bolitophagini (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae), although a single species from South Africa has been found on a millipede. Parsimony analysis based on morphological characters of the deutonymphs yielded a single tree which is used to test biogeographic and coevolutionary hypotheses with respect to the fungal and insect hosts of these mites.
Species 1: Acari Acaridae Boletoglyphus ornatus
Species 2: Acari Acaridae Boletoglyphus boletophagi
Keywords: Polyporaceae, Tenebrionidae
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