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Issue: Vol. 4200 No. 2: 29 Nov. 2016
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2016-11-29
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4200.2.6
Page range: 324–326
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A new hydryphantid genus from the Tien Shan Mountains of Kazakhstan (Acari, Hydrachnidia: Hydryphantidae)

Harry Smit, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, P.O. Box 9517, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands.
Acari Hydrachnidia water mites Hydryphantidae new genus

Abstract

Kazakhithyas pectinatus, n. gen. n. sp., is described from a rheohelocrene spring from the Tien Shan Mountains, Kazakhstan.

 

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