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Issue: Vol. 1545 No. 1: 9 Aug. 2007
Type: Article
Published: 2007-08-09
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1545.1.2
Page range: 17–31
Abstract views: 41
PDF downloaded: 25

Three new species of Neoscirula (Prostigmata: Cunaxidae) from a Tropical dry forest in Jalisco, Mexico

Laboratorio de Ecología y Sistemática de Microartrópodos, Departamento de Ecología y Recursos Naturales, Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM, 04510, México D. F.
Laboratorio de Ecología y Sistemática de Microartrópodos, Departamento de Ecología y Recursos Naturales, Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM, 04510, México D. F.
Bdelloidea taxonomy predatory mites identification key

Abstract

Three new species of cunaxid mites are described and illustrated: Neoscirula aliciae sp. nov., Neoscirula baloghi sp. nov. and Neoscirula hoffmannae sp. nov. from a tropical dry forest at Chamela Biological Station, Jalisco, Mexico. A key for the species of Neoscirula of the world is included.

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