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Type: Correspondence
Published: 2018-09-04
Page range: 182–184
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A new species of the genus Decussobates Cook, 1988 from Argentina, with the first description of the male (Acari: Hydrachnidia: Hygrobatidae)

Naturalis Biodiversity Center, P.O. Box 9517, 2300 RA Leiden, the Netherlands.
Acari Hydrachnidia Hygrobatidae

Abstract

In 1988 Cook described the hygrobatid genus Decussobates from Chile (Cook 1988). The description was based on females only. He described two species of the genus. A new record of the genus from southern Argentina, including males, necessitates an emendation of the description of the genus. The new material from Argentina belongs to a new species, which will be described below.

 

References

  1. Cook, D.R. (1988) Water mites from Chile. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, 42, 1–356.