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Issue: Vol. 3999 No. 4: 12 Aug. 2015
Type: Article
Published: 2015-08-12
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3999.4.5
Page range: 549–559
Abstract views: 123
PDF downloaded: 5

Two new myrmecophilous species of the genus Petalomium (Acari: Pygmephoroidea: Neopygmephoridae)

Tyumen State University, Tyumen, 10 Semakova Str., 625003 Russia.
Acari Heterostigmata systematics phoresy ants Myrmicaria Africa

Abstract

Two new myrmecophilous species of the genus Petalomium Cross, 1965 (Acari: Pygmephoroidea: Neopygmephoridae), P. crossi sp. nov. and P. reductus sp. nov. are described from ants Myrmicaria distincta Santschi, 1925 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae) in Ethiopia. The presence and shape of the postpalpal setae in species of the genus Petalomium are discussed.

 

How to Cite

Khaustov, A.A. (2015)

Two new myrmecophilous species of the genus Petalomium (Acari: Pygmephoroidea: Neopygmephoridae)

. Zootaxa, 3999 (4), 549–559. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3999.4.5