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Issue: Vol. 1693 No. 1: 31 Jan. 2008
Type: Article
Published: 2008-01-31
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1693.1.5
Page range: 62–68
Abstract views: 48

Revision of the genus Rutacarus (Acari, Parasitengona, Hydrachnidia) with the description of a new species from Central America

Museo Nacional Ciencias Naturales c/José Gutiérrez Abascal, 2 28006-Madrid. Spain
Acari Hydrachnidia Rutacarus Anisitsiellidae interstitial water mites

Abstract

A review of the morphology and distribution of the genus Rutacarus Lundblad, 1937 is provided with the description of a new species, R. annae n. sp. from Coiba, an island off the Pacific coast of Panama. A key to all described species, five already known, one new, is included.

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