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Issue: Vol. 4429 No. 2: 6 Jun. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-06-06
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4429.2.12
Page range: 379–389
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Mites of the family Parasitidae Oudemans, 1901 (Acari: Mesostigmata) from Japan: a new species of Vulgarogamasus Tichomirov, 1969, and a key to Japanese species

Laboratory of Applied Entomology & Zoology, Faculty of Agriculture, Ibaraki University, Ami, Ibaraki 300–0393, Japan. ORCID: T. Gotoh http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9108-7065 Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Assiut University, Assiut 71526, Egypt. https://orcid.org/0000–0003–3479–0496 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Chiyoda, Tokyo 102–0083, Japan.
Laboratory of Applied Entomology & Zoology, Faculty of Agriculture, Ibaraki University, Ami, Ibaraki 300–0393, Japan. ORCID: T. Gotoh http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9108-7065
Acari Parasitiformes morphology Parasitoidea Japan new species Vulgarogamasus taxonomy

Abstract

Vulgarogamasus edurus sp. nov. (Acari: Parasitidae) is described based on females, deutonymphs and males extracted from leaf litter and soil in Ami, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. Morphological differences between the new species and its closely related species, Vulgarogamasus fujisanus (Ishikawa, 1972), are recorded based on the examination of type materials. Information about parasitid mites reported in Japanese literature is reviewed, and a key to species is provided.

 

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