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Sixteen species of macrochelid mites were collected on the surface of scarab dung beetles in Mount Gede-Pangrango National Park, West Java, Indonesia. Of these, one species, Macrocheles gedeensis sp. nov. is described here as new to science. The other fifteen species were Holostaspella katakurai Hartini and Takaku, 2003, H. oblonga Hartini and Takaku, 2010, H. villosa Hartini and Takaku, 2010, Neopodocinum halimunense Hartini and Takaku, 2003, N. subjaspersi Hartini and Takaku, 2003, Neopodocinum sp., Macrocheles dispar (Berlese, 1910), M. entetiensis Hartini and Takaku, 2005, M. hallidayi Walter and Krantz, 1986, M. jabarensis Hartini and Takaku, 2003, M. kraepelini (Berlese, 1905), M. pumilus Hartini, Dwibadra and Takaku, 2009, M. turgoensis Hartini, Dwibadra and Takaku, 2009, M. sukabumiensis Hartini and Takaku, 2003, and M. sukaramiensis Takaku, 2001.
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