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Published: 2017-03-23
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Notoaturine water mites from New Zealand (Acari: Hydrachnidia: Notoaturinae) with the description of five new species

Naturalis Biodiversity Center, P.O. Box 9517, 2300 RA Leiden, the Netherlands.
Acari Systematics new species New Zealand

Abstract

The following new notoaturine species from New Zealand are described in this paper: Paratryssaturus stewartensis n. sp., Planaturus pileatus n. sp., P. serratus n. sp., Taintaturus indentatus n. sp. and T. longipileatus n. sp. Paratryssaturus morimotoi (Imamura, 1979) is synonymized with P. minutus. A key is given for the genus Taintaturus Cook. Numerous new records are given, including the first for Stewart Island.

 

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    https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4033.3.9