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Issue: Vol. 4514 No. 1: 6 Nov. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-11-05
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4514.1.2
Page range: 23–40
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Some soil-inhabiting mites from Zanzibar (Acari: Laelapidae)

Tyumen State University, Tyumen, Russia.
Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO, GPO Box 1700, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia.
Tyumen State University, Tyumen, Russia.
Tyumen State University, Tyumen, Russia.
Acari taxonomy soil Gaeolaelaps Ololaelaps Pseudoparasitus Hypoaspisella Ethiopian region Afrotropical region

Abstract

This paper reports on six species of soil-inhabiting mites of the family Laelapidae from Zanzibar, Tanzania: Gaeolaelaps praesternalis (Willmann), G. zanzibarensis sp. nov., Hypoaspisella bernhardi sp. nov., Ololaelaps placentula (Berlese), Ololaelaps placidus (Banks) and Pseudoparasitus missouriensis (Ewing). The subgenus Hypoaspis (Hypoaspisella) Bernhard, 1971 is raised to the genus level and its diagnosis is clarified.

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