Fifteen new canestriniid mites (Acari, Astigmata, Canestriniidae) associated with beetles of the Colydiidae and Cetoniinae (Scarabaeidae) (Insecta, Coleoptera).

Two canestriniid genera: Tamarangia, Kahoorangia and the following species are newly described: Sandrophela dittae from Colydium sp., Borneo, Tamarangia nimfae from Pachnoda thoracica, Etiopia, T. fabiolae and T. flawiani from P. marginata, Sierra Leone, Kahoorangia almae from P. carmelita, South Africa, Paraphagella ingridae and Cetonicola orestesi from Tmesorrhina iris, Liberia, P. indirae, Cetonicola isadorae and Boetophela erhardi from Chelarrhina savagei, Cameroon, P. odae and C. maritae from Stephanorrhina guttata, Congo-Brazzaville, Boetophela sybillae from Goliathus alborignatus, Tanzania, B. symeoni from Elasocheilon heterospila, B. silvanae from Geynodonta laeviplaga, Tanzania.