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Issue: Vol. 4258 No. 5: 2 May 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-05-02
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4258.5.4
Page range: 462–476
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A new genus of the mite family Scutacaridae (Acari: Heterostigmata) associated with Trinervitermes trinervoides (Isoptera: Termitidae) from South Africa

Tyumen State University, Tyumen, Russia.
Department of Acarology, National Museum, PO Box 266, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa. Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa.
Tyumen State University, Tyumen, Russia.
Pygmephoroidea systematics new genus new species phoresy termite Africa Acari

Abstract

A new monotypic genus of scutacarid mites, Gerdalbertia gen. nov. (Acari: Pygmephoroidea: Scutacaridae), with type species G. elongata sp. nov. is described from nests of and phoretic on termites, Trinervitermes trinervoides (Sjostedt, 1911) (Isoptera: Termitidae), from South Africa. The taxonomic position of the new genus is discussed.

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