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Issue: Vol. 2114 No. 1: 22 May. 2009
Type: Articles
Published: 2009-05-22
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2114.1.3
Page range: 61–68
Abstract views: 47
PDF downloaded: 2

New Australian hygrobatids (Acari: Hydrachnidia: Hygrobatidae), with the description of two new genera and three new species

Zoological Museum, University of Amsterdam, Plantage Middenlaan 64, 1018 DH Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Acari Hydrachnidia Hygrobatidae Australia new species

Abstract

Two new genera of the water mite family Hygrobatidae (Acari: Hydrachnidia) are described from Australia, Ioannibates gen. nov. and Pseudoaustraliobates gen. nov.. In addition, three new species are described, Ioannibates papillosus sp. nov., Pseudoaustraliobates flindersi sp. nov. and the second species of the genus Declinobates K.O. Viets, D. tasmanicus.

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