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Type: Article
Published: 2015-06-04
Page range: 445–459
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Third contribution to the knowledge of water mites from the Comoros, with the description of two new species (Acari: Hydrachnidia)

Department of Biology, University of Montenegro, Cetinjski put b.b., 81000 Podgorica, Montenegro.
Naturalis Biodiversity Center, P.O. Box 9517, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
BP 140 798, 98 701 Arue, Tahiti, French Polynesia.
Acari Hydrachnidia new species new records Comoros

Abstract

New records of water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) from the Comoros are presented. Two species new to science, Torrenticola comorosensis (Torrenticolidae) and Sterkspruitia comorosensis (Hygrobatidae) are described; the latter species is the second known species of the genus Sterkspruitia Cook, 2003. First records are given for Limnochares crinita Koenike, 1898 and Mamersella thienemanni K. Viets, 1929. Additional measurements, figures and information on the morphology are given for specimens assigned to the Monatractides ventriosus—species complex.