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Issue: Vol. 4244 No. 3: 21 Mar. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-03-20
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4244.3.2
Page range: 321–338
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Capricornella bicornuta, a new genus and species of mite from eastern Australia (Acari: Uropodina)

Department of General Zoology, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland.
Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO, GPO Box 1700, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia.
Electron and Confocal Microscope Laboratory and Department of Animal Physiology and Development, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
Department of General Zoology, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland.
Acari Uropodidae intra-species variation new genus

Abstract

We describe a new genus and species of mite from eastern Australia, Capricornella bicornuta. The new genus is characterised by the presence of two long appendages on the anterior margin of the epigynal shield of the female.

 

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