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Issue: Vol. 169 No. 1: 24 Mar. 2003
Type: Article
Published: 2003-03-24
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.169.1.1
Page range: 1–4
Abstract views: 55
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Pygmodispus (Pygmodispus) paraequestris spec. nov. (Acari: Heterostigmata: Scutacaridae) from Turkmenistan

Nikita Botanical Gardens – National Scientific Centre, Yalta, Crimea, 98648 Ukraine
S. Seidi Turkmenian State pedagogical institute, Turknenabat, Shabende str. 7, 746100, Turkmenistan
Acari Scutacaridae Pygmodispus new species Turkmenistan

Abstract

Pygmodispus (Pygmodispus) paraequestris spec. nov. (Acari: Scutacaridae) is described from the soil of a cotton field from Turkmenistan. The new species is very closely related to P. equestris Paoli, 1911, but differs from it by a much more massive claw on tibiotarsus I, by a more massive process of trochanter IV and by a shorter solenidion w2 on tibiotarsus I.

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