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Type: Article
Published: 2015-03-06
Page range: 413–429
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Two new species of the genus Pediculaster (Acari: Pygmephoridae) from Western Siberia, Russia

Tyumen State University, Tyumen, Russia.
Acari Heterostigmatina systematics female dimorphism Palaearctic

Abstract

Two new species of the genus Pediculaster Vitzthum, 1931 (Acari: Pygmephoroidea: Pygmephoridae), P. ermilovi sp. nov. and P. lignarius sp. nov. are described from rotten logs in Tyumen, Western Siberia, Russia. A key to phoretic females of Palaearctic species of the genus Pediculaster is provided.