Hypoaspis kargi Costa, 1968 New localities. As 216 Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Prov. Kanwon: Kum-gang sen, Guriong chon, riverside northern slope, litter and underlying ground from below coniferous trees, 01.VI.1970, leg. Mahunka, S. and Steinmann, H. Short description. Dorsal shield with reticulate sculptural pattern and bearing needle-like setae. Dorsal setae short reach the next ones. Genital shield of female linguliform, shields on ventral idiosoma covered by reticulate sculptural pattern. Presternal shields fused and formed a large and reticulate plate on anterior margin of sternal shield. Between genital and ventrianal shield two pairs of needle-like setae situated. Previous record from Korean Peninsula. - Distribution. Europa and Asia. Remarks. New for the Korean fauna.

Published as part of Kontschan, Jeno, Jeon, Mi Jeong, Hwang, Jeong Mi & Seo, Hong Yul, 2015, New records to the Korean soil dwelling Mesostigmata fauna (Acari), pp. 33-44 in Journal of Species Research 4 (1) on page 35, DOI: 10.12651/JSR.2015.4.1.033, http://zenodo.org/record/12753489