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Issue: Vol. 4483 No. 2: 21 Sept. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-09-21
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4483.2.3
Page range: 271–294
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Review of the genus Ceratotarsonemus De Leon, 1956 (Acari: Prostigmata: Tarsonemidae), with description of a new species from the Amazon Forest

Department of Zoology and Botany, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Institute of Biosciences, Humanities and Exact Sciences (IBILCE), Campus São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo 15054-000, Brazil.
Department of Zoology and Botany, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Institute of Biosciences, Humanities and Exact Sciences (IBILCE), Campus São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo 15054-000, Brazil.
Electron and Confocal Microscopy Unit, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, United States National Arboretum, Floral and Nursery Plants Research Unit, Beltsville, Maryland, 20705, USA.
Electron and Confocal Microscopy Unit, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville, Maryland 20705, USA.
Systematic Entomology Laboratory, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville, Maryland 20705, USA.
Acari diversity fauna Heterostigmatina mite taxonomy

Abstract

The genus Ceratotarsonemus De Leon (Acari: Prostigmata: Tarsonemidae) is reviewed here, with the addition of an updated key for the genus. Ceratotarsonemus amazonicus, sp. nov., found in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest, is described. Phase contrast (PC), differential interference contrast (DIC), low temperature scanning electron microscopy (LT-SEM) and confocal microscopy (CLSM) micrographs are provided. Biological and ecological aspects about the role of this species in its ecosystem are also discussed.

 

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