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Order Trombidiformes Reuter, 1909. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness

New Zealand Arthropod Collection, Landcare Research, Private Bag 92170, Auckland, New Zealand
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Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya Embankment 1, 199034 St. Petersburg, Russia
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National Museum of Natural History, Sofia, Hungary
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Department of Zoology, University of Zielona Góra, Szafrana 1, 65-516 Zielona Góra, Poland
Biology Department, Adrian College, Adrian, Michigan 49221, U.S.A
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