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Issue: Vol. 4061 No. 2: 6 Jan. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-01-06
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4061.2.3
Page range: 131–145
Abstract views: 63
PDF downloaded: 3

Oribatid mites (Acarina, Oribatida) from French Guyana: review of the genus Rhynchoribates and description of three new specie

Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague, Czech Republic. Faculty of Science, Institute of Environmental Studies, Charles University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic.
Acari Oribatid mites Rhynchoribatidae Eurhynchoribates Tectorhynchoribates Rhynchoribatodes Parhynchoribates new genus new subgenus new species French Guyana Guyana shield

Abstract

One new genus (Eurhynchoribates n. gen.) and three new subgenera (Rhynchoribatodes n. subgen., Parhynchoribates n. subgen. and Tectorhynchoribates n. subgen.) are proposed on the basis of review of known species of genus Rhynchoribates Grandjean, 1929 and on the basis of description of three new species—Rhynchoribates (s. str.) danbartai n. sp., Rhynchoribates (Tectorhynchoribates) jurobales n. sp. and Rhynchoribates (Rhynchoribatodes) dynastes n. sp.—from the territory of French Guyana. All known species of Rhynchoribates are discussed and their position into newly defined genera and subgenera proposed. Detailed differential diagnoses are given for all new taxons.

 

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