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Issue: Vol. 2140 No. 1: 24 Jun. 2009
Type: Articles
Published: 2009-06-24
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2140.1.1
Page range: 1–15
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Four new cunaxoidine genera (Acari: Prostigmata: Cunaxidae) and the description of two new Neotropical species

Setor de Zoologia, Departamento de Entomologia, e Acarologia Agrícola, Escola Superior de Agricultura ″Luiz de Queiroz″ (ESALQ), Universidade de São Paulo, Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil, 13418-900
Departamento de Fitossanidade, UNESP, Campus de Jaboticabal, São Paulo, Brazil, 14884-900
Acari Bdelloidea Cunaxoidinae four new taxa taxonomy identification key

Abstract

In this paper the genus Cunaxoides Baker & Hoffmann, 1948, as delimited by Den Heyer (1979a, 1981b), is revised and divided into five genera, viz. Cunaxoides Baker & Hoffmann, Bunaxella gen. nov., Dunaxeus gen. nov., Funaxopsis gen. nov. and Qunaxella gen.nov.. Two new Neotropical species, Dunaxoides duosetosus and Qunaxella triasetosa are described and figured. Additional southern African material is reported. A key to the genera and species of the new genera of the subfamily Cunaxoidinae is provided.

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