Together with the
family Lordalycidae (about 10 described
species), the Sphaerolichidae now constitute
the suborder Sphaerolichida, a taxon that is
closely related to the Prostigmata
(O’Connor, 1984; Walter et al., 2009).
Collectively, Sphaerolichida are cosmopolitan
in distribution, but they are rarely
encountered in large numbers and have
received little study (Bonkowski et al.,
2012). In this paper, I describe a new
species of Sphaerolichus —S. lekprayoonae
n. sp.—based on adult specimens collected
from the leaf-litter of tropical forests in the
Surin Islands, Southern Thailand. This
represents the first record of the genus from
Thailand.