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Issue: Vol. 1389 No. 1: 11 Jan. 2007
Type: Articles
Published: 2007-01-11
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1389.1.2
Page range: 31–44
Abstract views: 38
PDF downloaded: 4

Water mite species of the genus Hydrodroma Koch (Acari: Hydrachnidia, Hydrodromidae) from Australasia. Part I

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

Abstract

Three new water mite species of the genus Hydrodroma Koch (Acari: Hydrachnidia, Hydrodromidae), characterized by more than one swimming setae on II-L-5, are reported from Australia and New Caledonia: Hydrodroma kununurra sp. nov., H. australis sp. nov. and H. kakadu sp. nov.

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