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Issue: Vol. 2980 No. 1: 29 Jul. 2011
Type: Articles
Published: 2011-07-29
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2980.1.1
Page range: 1–22
Abstract views: 31
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Five new species of fur mites (Acariformes: Sarcoptoidea) from small mammals in Laos

Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya Embankment 1, 199034 Saint Petersburg, Russia Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, 1109 Geddes Ave., Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 USA
Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya Embankment 1, 199034 Saint Petersburg, Russia
Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, rue Buffon 55, 75231 Paris, France
Acari Atopomelidae Listrophoridae Mammalia ectoparasites systematics

Abstract

Five new fur-inhabiting mites of the superfamily Sarcoptoidea (Acariformes: Astigmata) are described from small mammals associated with tower karstic landscape in Khammouane Province of Laos: Listrophoroides oconnori sp. n. from Saxatilomys paulinae Musser et al. (Rodentia: Muridae) and Atopomelus megalotis sp. n. from Hylomys megalotis Jenkins and Robbinson (Erinaceomorpha: Erinaceidae)—Atopomelidae; Afrolistrophoroides laonastes sp. n. from Laonastes aenigmamus Jenkins et al. (Rodentia: Diatomyidae), A. saxatilomys sp. n. from Saxatilomys paulinae, and Pteromychirus menetes from Menetes berdmorei (Blyth) (Rodentia: Sciuridae)—Listrophoridae.

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