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Issue: Vol. 73 No. 1: 26 Sept. 2002
Type: Article
Published: 2002-09-26
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.73.1.1
Page range: 1–6
Abstract views: 44
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Interstitial water mites of Argentina: Omartacarus Cook (Omartacaridae) and Meramecia Cook (Limnesiidae) (Acari: Hydrachnidia)

Facultad de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Tucuman, Argentina (Flathead Lake Biological Station, 311 Bio Station Lane, Polson, Montana, U.S.A. 59860)
Acari Hyporheic Parameramecia Submeramecia stygobiotic wide distributions

Abstract

A male exemplar identified as Omartacarus brevipalpis Cook, collected in Tucuman (Argentina), is reassigned to O. tucumanensis Fernández, as is the nymph described by Cook in 1980 near the type locality of O. tucumanensis. New distributional data are presented for Omartacarus and Meramecia (Submeramecia) diamphida Cook. Meramecia saltensis Fernández is assigned to the subgenus Parameramecia, where it is the second species at the present.

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