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Issue: Vol. 2354 No. 1: 9 Feb. 2010
Type: Articles
Published: 2010-02-09
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2354.1.2
Page range: 19–34
Abstract views: 75
PDF downloaded: 2

New records of water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) from Malaysia, with descriptions of three new species

Department of Biology, University of Montenegro, Cetinjski put b.b., 81000 Podgorica, Serbia and Montenegro
Zoological Museum, University of Amsterdam, Plantage Middenlaan 64, 1018 DH Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Acari new species new records taxonomy

Abstract

New records of water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) from Malaysia are presented. Three species new to science, Torrenticola haliki, Monatractides cameronensis and Atractides cameronensis are described; first records are given for Monatractides parviventris (K. Viets, 1935) and M. roseus (Lundblad, 1941).

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