First report of the genus Bostocktrachys Hirschmann, 1979 from India (Acari, Mesostigmata, Uropodina, Trachyuropodidae) with the description of a new species and with note to the ontogeny of the genus

The first representatives of the genus Bostocktrachys Hirschmann, 1979 have been discovered in India and are described here as Bostocktrachys wisniewskii sp. nov. based on females, males and nymphs. The new species differs from its congeners on the basis of the shape of grooves on the dorsal shields, dorsal and ventral setae and dorsal and ventral culptural pattern. The second deutonymph and the first protonymph of this genus are presented and discussed.