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Issue: Vol. 2051 No. 1: 25 Mar. 2009
Type: Article
Published: 2009-03-25
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2051.1.4
Page range: 49–61
Abstract views: 51
PDF downloaded: 22

Review of Apoplophora (Acari: Oribatida: Mesoplophoridae), with the description of a new species from China

Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, P. R. China Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, P. R. China
Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, P. R. China
Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, P. R. China
Acari Oribatida Mesoplophoridae Apoplophora soil mites new species new record China

Abstract

The oribatid mite genus Apoplophora Aoki, 1980 (Mesoplophoridae) is reviewed, and a checklist and key to all known species are provided. Three species of Apoplophora including a new species, Apoplophora dentata sp. nov. from Tibet, and a newly recorded species from China, Apoplophora heterotricha Mahunka, 1987, are identified, and their morphological descriptions and illustrations are also given.

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