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Issue: Vol. 4290 No. 3: 10 Jul. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-07-10
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4290.3.2
Page range: 444–458
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A new species of Podocinum (Acari: Podocinidae) from Brazil, and supplementary descriptions of three species of this genus 

Departamento de Fitossanidade, FCAV-UNESP-Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho, 14884-900 Jaboticabal, São Paulo, Brazil.
Departamento de Entomologia e Acarologia, ESALQ-Universidade de São Paulo, 13418-900 Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil.
Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso;78.557-267 Sinop – MT, Brazil.
CNPq Researcher, Departamento de Entomologia e Acarologia, ESALQ-Universidade de São Paulo, 13418-900 Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil.
Acari morphology mite taxonomy

Abstract

Only two species of Podocinidae Berlese, Podocinum pacificum Berlese, 1895 and Podocinum sagax (Berlese, 1882c), have been reported from South America, both from Brazil and Argentina. The objective of this publication is to provide morphological information about specimens from Brazil identified as Podocinum bengalensis Bhattacharyya, 1968, P. pacificum and P. sagax, to describe a new species (Podocinum tupinamba n. sp.), and to present a new characterisation of Podocinum, incorporating characteristics of the mites examined in this study and a reappraisal of the literature.

 

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