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Issue: Vol. 2413 No. 1: 29 Mar. 2010
Type: Articles
Published: 2010-03-29
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2413.1.4
Page range: 51–60
Abstract views: 52
PDF downloaded: 1

Second contribution to the knowledge of water mites from the Comoros, with the description of one new species (Acari: Hydrachnidia)

Zoological Museum, University of Amsterdam, Plantage Middenlaan 64, 1018 DH Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Department of Biology, University of Montenegro, Cetinjski put b.b., 81000 Podgorica, Montenegro
BP 271, 98 728 Maharepa, Moorea, French Polynesia
Acari Hydrachnidia new species Comoros

Abstract

New records of water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) from the Comoros are presented. One species new to science, Africasia comorosensis is described; first records are given for Torrenticola sp. and Atractides thoracatus Koenike, 1898.

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