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Issue: Vol. 1359 No. 1: 16 Nov. 2006
Type: Articles
Published: 2006-11-16
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1359.1.2
Page range: 31–55
Abstract views: 54
PDF downloaded: 3

Two new species of Tarsonemus (Acari: Tarsonemidae) associated with bark beetles (Coleoptera: Scolytidae) from Crimea, Ukraine

Department of Animal Taxonomy and Ecology, A. Mickiewicz University, Umultowska 89, 61-614 Poznań, Poland
Department of Agroecology, Nikita Botanical Gardens – National Scientific Center, 98648 Yalta, Crimea, Ukraine
Acari Tarsonemus Scolytidae Ukraine systematics taxonomy

Abstract

Two new species of mites of the genus Tarsonemus Can. & Fanz., 1876: T. fraxini n. sp. and T. bistridentati n. sp. are described and illustrated based on material from instars associated with bark beetles in Ukraine. The systematic position of new species and their host relationships are briefly discussed.

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