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Issue: Vol. 2779 No. 1: 28 Feb. 2011
Type: Articles
Published: 2011-02-28
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2779.1.2
Page range: 39–62
Abstract views: 40
PDF downloaded: 1

Water mites of the genus Monatractides Viets (Acari: Hydrachnidia, Torrenticolidae) from New Guinea, with descriptions of nine new species

Department of Biology, University of Montenegro, Cetinjski put b.b., 81000 Podgorica, Serbia and Montenegro
Zoological Museum, University of Amsterdam, Plantage Middenlaan 64, 1018 DH Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Acari water mites new species running waters New Guinea Papua

Abstract

New records of water mites of the genus Monatractides Viets, 1926 (Acari: Hydrachnidia, Torrenticolidae) from streams in Papua Province, New Guinea, Indonesia are presented. Nine new species are described: Monatractides novaeguineae, M. papuensis, M. nipsanicus, M. sentanicus, M. abepurus, M. bionus, M. sahuli, M. alticolus and M. humilis. A redescription of Monatractides papillatus (Smit, 1996) is given. A key to the species of Monatractides from Papua Province is presented.

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