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Issue: Vol. 61 No. 1: 8 Aug. 2002
Type: Article
Published: 2002-08-08
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.61.1.1
Page range: 1–10
Abstract views: 34
PDF downloaded: 4

Two new water mite species from New Zealand (Acari: Hydrachnidia)

Zoological Museum, University of Amsterdam, Plantage Middenlaan 64, 1018 DH Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Acari Hydrachnidia Frontipoda Flabellifrontipoda Limnesia water mites new species.

Abstract

Two new species are described from Lake Rotorua, New Zealand, viz. Frontipoda minutipalpis (Oxidae) and Limnesia rotoruaensis (Limnesiidae). The genus Flabellifrontipoda is lowered in ranking to a subgenus of Frontipoda. This affects the following species: Frontipoda (Flabellifron- tipoda) allarka (Cook) nov. comb., F. (Flabellifrontipoda) allasa (Cook) nov. comb., F. (Flabelli- frontipoda) bravana (Cook) nov. comb., F. (Flabellifrontipoda) carteza (Cook) nov. comb., F. (Flabellifrontipoda) crameri (Cook) nov. comb., F. (Flabellifrontipoda) dolichopalpis (Cook) nov. comb., F. (Flabellifrontipoda) eloma (Cook) nov. comb., F. (Flabellifrontipoda) hadinoma (Cook) nov. comb., F. (Flabellifrontipoda) lacustris (Cook) nov. comb., F. (Flabellifrontipoda) ladilofa (Cook) nov. comb., F. (Flabellifrontipoda) longipalpa (Cook) nov. comb., F. (Flabellifrontipoda) mastigophora (Cook) nov. comb., F. (Flabellifrontipoda) penai (Cook) nov. comb., F. (Flabellifron- tipoda) reductipalpa (Cook) nov. comb., F. (Flabellifrontipoda) smithi (Cook) nov. comb., F. (Fla- bellifrontipoda) striata (Cook) nov. comb., F. (Flabellifrontipoda) tranasa (Cook) nov. comb., F. (Flabellifrontipoda) unoka (Cook) nov. comb. and F. (Flabellifrontipoda) zadina (Cook) nov. comb.

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