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Issue: Vol. 4434 No. 1: 14 Jun. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-06-14
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4434.1.13
Page range: 193–200
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Two new eriophyoid mites (Acari: Eriophyoidea) from West Bengal, India

Post-Graduate Department of Zoology, Vidyasagar College, 39 Sankar Ghosh Lane, Kolkata 700006.
Post-Graduate Department of Zoology, Vidyasagar College, 39 Sankar Ghosh Lane, Kolkata 700006.
Post-Graduate Department of Zoology, Vidyasagar College, 39 Sankar Ghosh Lane, Kolkata 700006.
Acari Eriophyidae Diptilomiopidae new species West Bengal India

Abstract

Two new species of eriophyoid mites viz. Abacarus sundarbanensis n. sp. infesting Pongamia glabra L. (Fabaceae) and Diptilomiopus augustifoliae n. sp. infesting Ambroma augusta (L.) (Sterculiaceae) respectively, are described from West Bengal, India.

 

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