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Issue: Vol. 4629 No. 3: 8 Jul. 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-07-08
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4629.3.7
Page range: 397–404
Abstract views: 68
PDF downloaded: 2

On the systematics of the water mite Piona discrepans (Koenike, 1895) and Piona discrepaniella Tuzovskij, 1990 (Acari, Hydrachnidia, Pionidae)

Papanin Institute for Biology of Inland Waters of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Borok, Yaroslavl Province, 152742, Russia
Acari Pionidae morphology taxonomy Piona discrepans P. discrepaniella larva male female

Abstract

The first descriptions of the water mite larva of Piona discrepans and of the male and female of Piona discrepaniella (Acari, Hydrachnidia, Pionidae) are given.

 

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