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Issue: Vol. 1276 No. 1: 31 Jul. 2006
Type: Articles
Published: 2006-07-31
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1276.1.4
Page range: 47–53
Abstract views: 40
PDF downloaded: 2

Some zerconid mites (Acari: Mesostigmata: Zerconidae) from Kosovo (Serbia-Montenegro) with description of Zercon kosovina sp. nov.

Systematic Zoology Research Group of Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and Department of Zoology of Hungarian Natural History Museum, H-1088 Budapest Baross u. 13. Hungary
Acari Zerconidae new species Kosovo

Abstract

Three Zerconid mite species were collected in Kosovo (Serbia and Montenegro). Two of them, Zercon moravicus Halaškova, 1970 and Prozercon fimbriatus (C. L. Koch, 1839), are known species, but the third, Zercon kosovina sp. nov., proved to be new to science.

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