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Issue: Vol. 4483 No. 2: 21 Sept. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-09-21
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4483.2.6
Page range: 331–348
Abstract views: 61
PDF downloaded: 3

Fifth contribution to the knowledge of water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) from the Comoros: a checklist and description of one new genus and four new species 

Department of Biology, University of Montenegro, Cetinjski put b.b., 81000 Podgorica, Montenegro.
Naturalis Biodiversity Center, P.O. Box 9517, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands.
BP 13821, 98 803 Nouméa Cedex, Nouvelle-Calédonie.
Acari Hydrachnidia new species new records Comoros

Abstract

New records of water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) from the Comoros are presented. One genus, i.e. Lagoenaxonopsalbia Pešić & Smit, and four species, i.e. Platymamersopsis mayottensis (Anisitsiellidae), Torrenticola mayottensis (Torrenticolidae), Lagoenaxonopsalbia comorosensis (Aturidae) and Djeboa davecooki (Mideopsidae) are described as new to science. Arrenurus comorosensis Pešić & Smit, 2015 is synonymized with Arrenurus flavus Smit, 2012. The first description of the female of Sterkspruitia comorosensis Pešić & Smit, 2015 is given. The number of water mites known from Comoros now tallies 17 species in ten families.

 

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