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Issue: Vol. 1646 No. 1: 26 Nov. 2007
Type: Article
Published: 2007-11-26
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1646.1.1
Page range: 1–15
Abstract views: 41
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Four new species of Xenotarsonemus (Acari: Tarsonemidae) from Brazil

Depto. de Zoologia e Botânica, UNESP - Universidade Estadual Paulista, Campus de São José do Rio Preto, SP. Rua Cristóvão Colombo, 2265, 15054-000 São José do Rio Preto, SP
Depto. Entomologia, Fitopatologia e Zoologia Agrícola, ESALQ/Universidade de São Paulo, 13418-900 Piracicaba-SP, Brazil
Systematic Entomology Laboratory, Agriculture Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Henry A. Wallace Beltsville Agriculture Center, Beltsville, MD 20705, USA
Acari Mite taxonomy Cerrado

Abstract

Four new species of Xenotarsonemus Beer (Acari, Tarsonemidae), X. brachytegula, X. pirassunungaensis, X. cerrado and X. spiniphorus, are described based on specimens collected from plants of the "Cerrado" vegetation in the State of São Paulo, Brazil.

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