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Issue: Vol. 4286 No. 4: 4 Jul. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-07-04
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4286.4.6
Page range: 535–544
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Cosmolaelaps Berlese (Mesostigmata: Laelapidae) from southern Brazil, with a new record of a heteromorphic male, description of a new species, and a key to the species reported from that country

Departamento de Fitossanidade, Universidade Federal de Pelotas (UFPel), Câmpus Capão do Leão, Capão do Leão, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Espírito Santo, Câmpus Itapina, Colatina, Espírito Santo, Brazil.
Departamento de Fitossanidade, Universidade Federal de Pelotas (UFPel), Câmpus Capão do Leão, Capão do Leão, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
CNPq Researcher: Departamento de Entomologia e Acarologia, Escola Superior de Agricultura “Luiz de Queiroz”, Universidade de São Paulo (ESALQ/USP), Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil.
Acari Pampa biome biodiversity Hypoaspidinae Cosmolaelaps brevistilis

Abstract

Three Cosmolaelaps species were found in surveys recently conducted in the Pampa biome in southern Brazil. One of these is a new species here described as Cosmolaelaps pampaensis sp. nov. In the same surveys, heteromorphic male specimens of Cosmolaelaps guttulatus (Karg, 1978) were collected. A key for the identification of species of Cosmolaelaps reported from Brazil is provided.

 

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