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Issue: Vol. 4277 No. 3: 19 Jun. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-06-19
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4277.3.1
Page range: 301–351
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Key to the world species of Holoparasitus Oudemans, 1936 (Acari: Parasitiformes: Parasitidae)

Department of Comparative Anatomy, Institute of Zoology, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 9, 30–387 Kraków, Poland.
Acari Parasitiformes Gamasida species groups mite taxonomy

Abstract

Keys to the world species of the mite genus Holoparasitus (Parasitidae family) are provided separately for males and females. The genus includes 55 species, 42 of which are allocated to eight species groups. The Holoparasitus inornatus species group is newly defined.

 

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