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Issue: Vol. 3527 No. 1: 26 Oct. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-10-26
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3527.1.4
Page range: 55–62
Abstract views: 27
PDF downloaded: 2

A new species of Messoracarus (Acari: Mesostigmata: Aenictequoidea: Messoracaridae) from Laos

Plant Protection Institute, Centre for Agricultural Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, H-1525 Budapest, P.O. Box 102, Hungary
Queensland Museum, P.O. Box 3300, South Brisbane 4101, Australia
Acari Antennophorina Trigynaspida new species taxonomy Southeast Asia

Abstract

A new species of the ant-associated family Messoracaridae, Messoracarus schwendingeri sp. nov., is described on thebasis of one female and two males from Laos. A short review of the family is also presented, and a key for identification of its our species.

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