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Editor, Dr R. Bruce Halliday (Bruce.Halliday@csiro.au) Parasitiformes: Mesostigmata
CSIRO Division of Entomology, GPO Box 1700, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
Editor, Dr Tom Goldschmidt (tomgoldschmidt@web.de) Acariformes: water mites (Amercias & Caribbean)
Zoologische Staatssammlung München Sektion Arthropoda varia Münchhausenstraße 21 81247 München Germany
Editor, Dr Peter Martin (pmartin@zoologie.uni-kiel.de) Acariformes: water mites (Eurasia, Africa, Australia & Pacific islands)
Christian-Albrechts-Universitat Zoological Institute: Limnology Olshausenstrasse 40 D-24098 Kiel Germany  
Editor,  Dr Owen Seeman  (owen.seeman@qm.qld.gov.au) Acariformes & other small orders
Arachnida Collection, Queensland Museum, PO Box 3300, South Brisbane 4101, Australia
 Editor, Dr Heinrich Schatz (heinrich.schatz@uibk.ac.at) Acariformes: Oribatida 
Institute of Zoology, Technikerstr. 25 A-6020 Innsbruck Austria
 Editor, Danuta K. Knihinicki (danuta.knihinicki@industry.nsw.gov.au) Eriophyoidea
Industry & Investment NSW (Primary Industries) Agricultural Scientific Collections Unit (Acarology) Orange Agricultural Institute Locked Bag 6006 Forest Road, Orange NSW 2800 AUSTRALIA
 Editor, Dr Andrey Bochkov (prostigmata@zin.ru) Acariformes
Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya embankment 1, 199034 St. Petersburg, Russia
Editor, Dr Ekaterina Sidorchuk (e.a.sidorchuk@gmail.com) Oribatida
Palaeontological Institute, Profsoyuznaya ulitsa 123, Moscow, 117997. Russia

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2012

Article 
Zootaxa 3184: 1–34 (6 Feb. 2012) 21 plate; 92 references                           Accepted: 13 Dec. 2011
Differentiation of external morphology of Oribatulidae (Acari: Oribatida) in light of the ontogeny of three species
STANISŁAW SENICZAK & ANNA SENICZAK (Poland)
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Article 
Zootaxa 3178: 22–32 (31 Jan. 2012) 5 plate; 25 references                           Accepted: 9 Dec. 2011
Ornithodoros brasiliensis Aragão (Acari: Argasidae): description of the larva, redescription of male and female, and neotype designation
DARCI M. BARROS-BATTESTI, VALERIA C. ONOFRIO, FERNANDA A. NIERI-BASTOS, JOÃO FÁBIO SOARES, ARLEI MARCILI, KÁTIA M. FAMADAS, JOÃO LUIZ H. FACCINI, DIEGO G. RAMIREZ, ROVAINA L. DOYLE, JOÃO RICARDO MARTINS, JOSÉ R. JUNIOR, ALBERTO A. GUGLIELMONE & MARCELO B. LABRUNA (Brazil)
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Article 
Zootaxa 3178: 1–21 (31 Jan. 2012) 10 plate; 53 references                           Accepted: 30 Nov. 2011
A new species of Balaustium von Heyden, 1826 (Acari: Actinotrichida, Erythraeidae) from Spain
JOANNA MĄKOL (Poland), YVES ARIJS (Belgium) & FELIX WÄCKERS (Belgium)
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Article 
Zootaxa 3170: 45–54 (24 Jan. 2012) 6 plates; 7 references                      Accepted: 28 Nov. 2011
Description of two new species of Nothrolohmannia Balogh, 1968 (Acari: Oribatida: Hypochthoniidae) from Thailand, with key to known species
MARUT FUANGARWORN & CHARIYA LEKPRAYOON (Thailand)
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Article 
Zootaxa 3167: 57–65 (20 Jan. 2012) 5 plates; 15 references                      Accepted: 17 Nov. 2011
Three new species of quill mites (Acari: Syringophilidae) parasitizing the wrens (Aves: Troglodytidae)
BOZENA SIKORA, MONIKA FAJFER, KATARZYNA KAVETSKA & MACIEJ SKORACKI (Poland)
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Article 
Zootaxa 3167: 32–44 (20 Jan. 2012) 8 plates; 19 references                      Accepted: 22 Nov. 2011
Two new species from South Africa, with remarks on generic diagnosis of Licnodamaeolus Covarrubias, 1998 and taxonomic status of Nacunansella Fernandez & Cleva, 1998 (Acari: Oribatida: Licnodamaeidae)
SERGEY G. ERMILOV (Russia) & ELIZABETH A. HUGO-COETZEE (South Africa)
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Article
Zootaxa 3163: 33–53 (17 Jan. 2012) 9 plates; 14 references                           Accepted: 2 Dec. 2011
Diplogyniidae (Acari: Mesostigmata) associated with Panesthia cockroaches (Blattodea: Blaberidae)
OWEN D. SEEMAN (Australia)
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Article 
Zootaxa 3162: 39–59 (17 Jan. 2012) 12 plates; 19 references                       Accepted: 23 Nov. 2011
Fur mites of the genus Schizocarpus Trouessart (Acari: Chirodiscidae) parasitizing the Eurasian beaver Castor fiber belorussicus Lavrov (Rodentia: Castoridae) in NE Poland (Suwałki)
ANDRE V. BOCHKOV (Russia), ANNA LABRZYCKA (Poland) , MACIEJ SKORACKI (Poland) & ALEXANDER P. SAVELJEV (Russia)
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Article 
Zootaxa 3154: 47–60 (9 Jan. 2012) 4 plate; 53 references                           Accepted: 3 Nov. 2011
Eriophyoid mites (Acari: Eriophyoidea) on Brassicaceae: a new species of Metaculus from Turkey and remarks on other species associated with brassicaceous plants
ROSITA MONFREDA & ENRICO DE LILLO (Italy)
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2011

Editorial
Zootaxa 3148: 141–148 (23 Dec. 2011) 
Suborder Oribatida van der Hammen, 1968. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness
HEINRICH SCHATZ
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Editorial
Zootaxa 3148: 139–140 (23 Dec. 2011) 
Suborder Endeostigmata Reuter, 1909. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness
DAVID EVANS WALTER, SAMUEL BOLTON, MATTI UUSITALO & ZHI-QIANG ZHANG
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Editorial
Zootaxa 3148: 129–138 (23 Dec. 2011) 
Order Trombidiformes Reuter, 1909. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness
ZHI-QIANG ZHANG, QING-HAI FAN, VLADIMIR PESIC, HARRY SMIT, ANDRE V. BOCHKOV, A. A. KHAUSTOV, ANNE BAKER, ANDREAS WOHLTMANN, TINGHUAN WEN, JAMES W. AMRINE, P. BERON, JIANZHEN LIN, GRZEGORZ GABRYS & ROBERT HUSBAND
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Editorial
Zootaxa 3148: 123–128 (23 Dec. 2011) 
Superorder Parasitiformes Reuter, 1909. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness
FRÉDÉRIC BEAULIEU
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Article
Zootaxa 3140: 38–48 (22 Dec. 2011) 4 plates; 21 references                      Accepted: 28 Oct. 2011
Taxonomy of European Damaeidae (Acari: Oribatida) VI. The oribatid mite genus Parabelbella: Redescription of P. elisabhetae and synonymy of Akrodamaeus
LADISLAV MIKO (Belgium), SERGEY G. ERMILOV (Russia) & ILYA E. SMELYANSKY (Russia)
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Article
Zootaxa 3114: 63–68 (30 Nov. 2011) 03 plates; 07 references                         Accepted: 31 Oct. 2011
Two new quill mite species (Acari, Cheyletoidea, Syringophilidae) parasitizing Dinemellia dinemelli (Rüppell) (Passeriformes, Ploceidae)
ELIZA GLOWSKA & MACIEJ SKORACKI (Poland)
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Article
Zootaxa 3111: 1–36 (28 Nov. 2011) 4 plates; 65 references                         Accepted: 05 Oct. 2011
Description of a new species of cave mite, Miracarus grootaerti, and comparison with M. abeloosi, Lions, 1978 (Acari, Oribatida)
GEORGES WAUTHY & XAVIER DUCARME (Belgium)
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Article
Zootaxa 3106: 24–41 (22 Nov. 2011) 8 plates; 62 references                         Accepted: 12 Oct. 2011
New species of oribatid mites in the families Synichotritiidae and Phthiracaridae from Thailand, with a checklist of Thai Euptyctima (Acari: Oribatida: Euphthiracaroidea, Phthiracaroidea)
MARUT FUANGARWORN & CHARIYA LEKPRAYOON (Thailand)
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Article
Zootaxa 3099: 1–42 (16 Nov. 2011) 29 plates; 35 references                         Accepted: 05 Oct. 2011
Taxonomy of European Damaeidae (Acari: Oribatida) IV. Partial revision of Metabelba Grandjean, 1936 with proposal of one new subgenus, one new species and redescriptions of two known species
JAN MOUREK (UK), LADISLAV MIKO (Belgium) & FABIO BERNINI (Italy)
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Article
Zootaxa 3091: 33–41 (04 Nov. 2011) 2 plates; 40 references                         Accepted: 15 Sep. 2011
The mesostigmatid mite (Acari: Parasitiformes) fauna of Svalbard: a revised inventory of a high Arctic archipelago
MARÍA LUISA ÁVILA-JIMÉNEZ (Norway), DARIUSZ J. GWIAZDOWICZ (Poland) & STEPHEN JAMES COULSON (Norway)
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Article
Zootaxa 3089: 60–68 (03 Nov. 2011) 4 plates; 30 references                         Accepted: 05 Oct. 2011
A new stigmaeid mite species from Iran (Acari: Stigmaeidae) and re-description of Stigmaeus longipilis (Canestrini)
MARYAM PAHLAVAN YALI, MOHAMMAD KHANJANI, JABRAEIL RAZMJOU (Iran)
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Article
Zootaxa 3086: 54–68 (02 Nov. 2011) 12 plates; 14 references                         Accepted: 29 Sep. 2011
 Mites of the genera Pulaeus and Lupaeus (Acari: Prostigmata: Cunaxidae) of Crimea, Ukraine
ALEXEY L. SERGEYENKO (Ukraine)
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Article
Zootaxa 3086: 31–56 (01 Nov. 2011) 2 plates; 155 references                         Accepted: 21 Sep. 2011
 Phytoseiidae (Acari) in forest fragments in the State of São Paulo, Brazil
PETERSON R. DEMITE, ANTONIO C. LOFEGO & REINALDO J. F. FERES (Brazil)
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Article
Zootaxa 3086: 1–30 (01 Nov. 2011) 3 plates; 209 references                         Accepted: 13 Sep. 2011
 Relationships of South American marsupials (Didelphimorphia, Microbiotheria and Paucituberculata) and hard ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) with distribution of four species of Ixodes
ALBERTO A. GUGLIELMONE, SANTIAGO NAVA & M. MÓNICA DÍAZ (Argentina)
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Article
Zootaxa 3085: 63–68 (31 Oct. 2011) 2 plates; 20 references                         Accepted: 29 Sep. 2011
 A new species of eriophyoid mite (Acari: Eriophyoidea: Eriophyidae) on Leucadendron argenteum (L.) R. Br. from South Africa
DANIEL R. L. PYE (UK)
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Article
Zootaxa 3057: 1–48 (12 Oct. 2011) 25 plates; 67 references                         Accepted: 1 Sep. 2011
 New feather mites of the subfamily Pterodectinae (Acariformes: Proctophyllodidae) from passerines (Aves: Passeriformes) from Chile and Cuba 
SERGEY MIRONOV (Russia) & DANIEL GONZÁLEZ-ACUÑA (Chile)
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Article
Zootaxa 3051: 14–40 (07 Oct. 2011) 8 plates; 57 references                         Accepted: 25 Aug. 2011
 The fossil mite family Archaeorchestidae (Acari, Oribatida) II: redescription of Plategeocranus sulcatus and family-group relationships 
EKATERINA A. SIDORCHUK (Russia) & ROY A. NORTON (USA)
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Article
Zootaxa 3045: 45–56 (29 Sep. 2011) 6 plates; 36 references                         Accepted: 1 Sep. 2011
 Acamerobia inflatus gen. n. & sp. n. from Australia (Acari: Prostigmata: Raphignathoidea: Camerobiidae) with notes on the idiosomal chaetotaxy 
QING-HAI FAN (New Zealand) & DAVID E. WALTER (Canada)
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Article
Zootaxa 3045: 26–44 (29 Sep. 2011) 7 plates; 46 references                         Accepted: 31 Aug. 2011
 Phytoptus atherodes sp. n. (Acari: Eriophyoidea: Phytoptidae) and a supplementary description of Phytoptus hirtae Roivainen 1950 from sedges (Cyperaceae) 
PHILIPP E. CHETVERIKOV (Russia)
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Article
Zootaxa 3042: 15–26 (27 Sep. 2011) 6 plates; 25 references                         Accepted: 01 Sep. 2011
New eriophyoid mites (Acari: Prostigmata: Eriophyoidea) from banana and heliconia in Northeastern Brazil—two new genera and three new species 
ALEUNY C. REIS, MANOEL G. C. GONDIM JR., DENISE NAVIA & CARLOS H. W. FLECHTMANN (Brazil)
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Article
Zootaxa 3037: 62–68 (21 Sep. 2011) 5 plates; 10 references                         Accepted: 01 Sep. 2011
 A new eriophyoid mite species infesting Schefflera odorata (Araliaceae) in Yunnan Province, southwestern China (Acari: Eriophyoidea) 
XIAO-FENG XUE, JIA LUO, YUN XU & XIAO-YUE HONG (China)
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Article
Zootaxa 3037: 1–20 (21 Sep. 2011) 15 plates; 17 references                         Accepted: 15 Aug. 2011
 New water mite species of the genus Arrenurus Dugs, 1834 (Acariformes, Hydrachnidia, Arrenuridae) from the Far East of Russia 
PETR V. TUZOVSKIJ & KSENIA A. SEMENCHENKO (Russia)
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Article
Zootaxa 3036: 1–25 (21 Sep. 2011) 11 plates; 40 references                         Accepted: 29 Jul. 2011
 Five new species of Ceratoppia (Acari: Oribatida: Peloppiidae) from western North America 
ZOE LINDO (Canada)
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Article
Zootaxa 3034: 1–31 (20 Sep. 2011) 22 plates; 48 references                         Accepted: 13 Jul. 2011
 The ontogeny of morphological traits in three European species of Cosmochthonius Berlese, 1910 (Acari: Oribatida: Cosmochthoniidae) 
STANISŁAW SENICZAK (Poland), RITVA PENTTINEN (Finland) & ANNA SENICZAK (Poland)
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Article
Zootaxa 3027: 29–38 (15 Sep. 2011) 3 plates; 14 references                         Accepted: 18 Aug. 2011
 Quill mites (Acari: Syringophilidae) from mimid birds (Aves: Mimidae) 
BOZENA SIKORA, MONIKA FAJFER & MACIEJ SKORACKI (Poland)
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Article
Zootaxa 3025: 51–58 (14 Sep. 2011) 4 plates; 14 references                         Accepted: 10 Aug. 2011
 A new species of Abacarus (Acari: Prostigmata: Eriophyidae) damaging sugarcane, Sacharrum officinarum L., from Costa Rica—the first eriophyoid mite described with a tibial seta on leg II DENISE NAVIA (Brazil), CARLOS H. W. FLECHTMANN (Brazil), EVERT E. LINDQUIST (Canada) & HUGO AGUILAR (Costa Rica)
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Article
Zootaxa 3018: 50–58 (08 Sep. 2011) 4 plates; 14 references                         Accepted: 03 Aug. 2011
 New records of water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) from Brunei Darussalam, Borneo, with descriptions of two new species 
VLADIMIR PEŠIĆ (Montenegro), TAPAS CHATTERJEE (India), DAVID J. MARSHALL (Brunei Darussalam) & ANA PAVIĆEVIĆ (Montenegro)
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Article
Zootaxa 3015: 13–20 (06 Sep. 2011) 2 plates; 50 references                         Accepted: 01 Aug 2011
DNA barcoding reveals andropolymorphism in Aclerogamasus species (Acari: Parasitidae) MIROSŁAWA DABERT, AGATA BIGOŚ & WOJCIECH WITALIŃSKI (Poland)
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Article
Zootaxa 3011: 1–15 (01 Sep. 2011) 9 plates; 32 references                         Accepted: 28 Jul. 2011
 Three new species of Austrocarabodes (Oribatida: Carabodidae) and notes on Austrocarabodes pinnatus Mahunka, 1986, from South Africa 
ELIZABETH A. HUGO-COETZEE (South Africa)
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Article
Zootaxa 3005: 1–44 (26 Aug. 2011) 26 plates; 63 references                         Accepted: 26 Jul. 2011
 A review of the oribatid mite family Nothridae in Australia, with new species of Novonothrus and Trichonothrus from rain forest and their Gondwanan biogeo-graphical affinities (Acari: Oribatida) 
MATTHEW J. COLLOFF (Australia)
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Article
Zootaxa 3001: 49–56 (23 Aug. 2011) 4 plates; 21 references                         Accepted: 4 Jul. 2011
 A new species of Podocinum Berlese (Acari: Podocinidae) and a key to species of the genus from China 
YI YAN, DAO-CHAO JIN, XIAN-GUO GUO & JIAN-JUN GUO (China)
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Article
Zootaxa 2998: 16–38 (18 Aug. 2011) 4 plates; 85 references                         Accepted: 23 Jul. 2011
 The Amblyomma (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae) of Mexico: Identification Keys, Distribution and Hosts CARMEN GUZMÁN-CORNEJO (Mexico), RICHARD G. ROBBINS (USA), ALBERTO A. GUGLIELMONE (Argentina), GRISELDA MONTIEL-PARRA (Mexico) & TILA MARÍA PÉREZ (Mexico)
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Article
Zootaxa 2997: 37–53 (17 Aug. 2011) 2 plates; 91 references                         Accepted: 25 Jul. 2011
 Phytoseiid mites (Acari: Phytoseiidae) of the Dominican Republic, with a re-definition of the genus Typhloseiopsis De Leon 
FRANCISCO FERRAGUT (Spain), GILBERTO JOSE de MORAESm (Brazil) & DENISE NAVIA (Brazil)
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Article
Zootaxa 2995: 55–63 (15 Aug. 2011) 0 plates; 57 references                         Accepted: 13 Jul. 2011
 Checklist of New Zealand ticks (Acari: Ixodidae, Argasidae) 
ALLEN C.G. HEATH, RICARDO L. PALMA, RACHEL P. CANE & SCOTT HARDWICK (New Zealand)
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Article
Zootaxa 2995: 45–54 (15 Aug. 2011) 4 plates; 30 references                         Accepted: 27 Jul. 2011
 A new subgenus and two new species of Zercon C. L. Koch, 1836 (Acari: Zerconidae) from Southeast Asia 
ZSOLT UJVÁRI (Hungary)
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Article
Zootaxa 2993: 34–58 (11 Aug. 2011) 8 plates; 64 references                     Accepted: 18 Jul. 2011
The fossil mite family Archaeorchestidae (Acari, Oribatida) I: redescription of Strieremaeus illibatus and synonymy of Strieremaeus with Archaeorchestes 
EKATERINA A. SIDORCHUK (Russia) & ROY A. NORTON (USA)
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Article
Zootaxa 2988: 37–52 (08 Aug. 2011) 8 plates; 30 references                     Accepted: 1 Jul. 2011
Problems with the taxonomy of Phytoptus tetratrichus Nalepa 1890 (Acari: Eriophyoidea) inhabiting Tilia spp.: Analysis based on morphological variation among individuals 
GRAŻYNA SOIKA& MARCIN KOZAK (Poland)
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Article
Zootaxa 2988: 28–36 (08 Aug. 2011) 3 plates; 31 references                     Accepted: 5 Jul. 2011
Three new species of eriophyoid mites (Acari: Eriophyoidea) infesting fruit yielding plants from India 
SAMIRAN CHAKRABARTI & SANJAY SARKAR (India)
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Article
Zootaxa 2986: 1–54 (04 Aug. 2011) 45 plates; 18 references                     Accepted: 14 Jul. 2011
New records of water mites of the genus Atractides Koch, 1837 (Acari: Hydrachnidia, Hygrobatidae) from South Africa, with descriptions of five new species 
VLADIMIR PEŠIĆ (Montenegro), HARRY SMIT (The Netherlands) & REINHARD GERECK (Germany)
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Article
Zootaxa 2984: 54–66 (03 Aug. 2011) 7 plates; 16 references                         Accepted: 4 Jul. 2011
Uropodina mites with unusual chelicerae from Thailand (Acari: Mesostigmata) 
JENŐ KONTSCHÁN (Hungary)
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Article
Zootaxa 2980: 1–22 (29 Jul. 2011) 12 plates; 24 references                         Accepted: 6 Jul. 2011
Five new species of fur mites (Acariformes: Sarcoptoidea) from small mammals in Laos
ANDRE V. BOCHKOV (Russia), ALEXEI V. ABRAMOV (Russia) & JEAN-PIERRE HUGOT (France)
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Erratum 
Zootaxa 2978: 68 (28 Jul. 2011) 
 Erratum: El-Banhawy, E.M. & M. Knapp, M. (2011) Mites of the family Phytoseiidae Berlese from Kenya (Acari: Mesostigmata). Zootaxa, 2945, 1–176.
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Article
Zootaxa 2976: 15–31 (26 Jul. 2011) 1 plates; 110 references                         Accepted: 28 Jun. 2011
Phytoseiid mites (Acari: Phytoseiidae) from vineyards in Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil
NOELI JUAREZ FERLA, LIANA JOHANN, CRISNA KLOCK, FERNANDA MAJOLO & MARCOS BOTTON (Brazil)
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Article
Zootaxa 2973: 1–56 (22 Jul. 2011) 26 plates; 67 references                         Accepted: 20 Jun. 2011
Oribatella (Acari, Oribatida, Oribatellidae) of eastern North America
VALERIE M. BEHAN-PELLETIER (Canada)
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Article
Zootaxa 2972: 22–36 (21 Jul. 2011) 3 plates; 69 references                         Accepted: 30 Jun. 2011
New species and new records of mites of the family Laelapidae (Acari: Mesostigmata) associated with ants in Iran
OMID JOHARCHI (Iran), BRUCE HALLIDAY (Australia), ALIREZA SABOORI (Iran) & KARIM KAMALI (Iran)
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Article
Zootaxa 2971: 1–16 (20 Jul. 2011) 19 plates; 20 references                         Accepted: 13 Jun. 2011
Notes on the genus Dolichothrombium (Acari: Prostigmata: Trombidiidae) with description of a new species
JOANNA MĄKOL (Poland)?& SEVGI SEVSAY (Turkey)
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Article
Zootaxa 2966: 58–64 (14 Jul. 2011) 3 plates; 22 references                         Accepted: 21 Jun. 2011
Three new species of ptyctimous mites (Acari: Oribatida: Phthiracaroidea ) from Spain
WOJCIECH NIEDBAŁA (Poland) & JOSEF STARỲ (Czech Republic)
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Article
Zootaxa 2966: 13–30 (14 Jul. 2011) 9 plates; 24 references                         Accepted: 27 Jun. 2011
Quill mites (Acari: Syringophilidae) associated with galliform birds (Aves: Galliformes)
MACIEJ SKORACKI & BOZENA SIKORA (Poland)
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Article
Zootaxa 2962: 63–68 (11 Jul. 2011) 2 plates; 14 references                         Accepted: 13 Jun. 2011
A new flat mite (Acari: Prostigmata: Tenuipalpidae) from date palm in the Sultanate of Oman
G.J. DE MORAES (Brazil), A. AL-SHANFARI (Sultanate of Oman) & R. V. DA SILVA (Brazil)
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Monograph
Zootaxa 2961: 1–72 (08 Jul. 2011) 57 plates; 166 references               Accepted: 16 Jun. 2011
 Identification of exotic pest and Australian native and naturalised species of Tetranychus (Acari: Tetranychidae)
OWEN D. SEEMAN & JENNIFER J. BEARD
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Monograph
Zootaxa 2954: 1–86 (08 Jul. 2011) 64 plates; 69 references               Accepted: 23 Feb. 2011
Mites of the subgenus Microtimyobia (Acariformes: Myobiidae: Radfordia) and their host-parasite relationships with cricetid rodents (Cricetidae)
ANDRE V. BOCHKOV
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Monograph
Zootaxa 2945: 1–176 (08 Jul. 2011) 109 plates; 166 references               Accepted: 6 Apr. 2011
 Mites of the family Phytoseiidae Berlese from Kenya (Acari: Mesostigmata)
E. M. EL-BANHAWY & M. KNAPP
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Article
Zootaxa 2942: 1–56 (06 Jul. 2011) 26 plates; 95 references                       Accepted: 18 May 2011
The stigmaeid mites (Acari: Stigmaeidae) of Kelkit Valley (Turkey)
GÜLDEM DÖNEL & SALİH DOĞAN (Turkey)
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Zootaxa 2941: 1–37 (06 Jul. 2011) 25 plates; 17 references                       Accepted: 11 May 2011
New flat mite genera (Acari: Trombidiformes: Tenuipalpidae) associated with Australian sedges (Cyperaceae)
JENNIFER J. BEARD (Australia) & RONALD OCHOA (USA)
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Article
Zootaxa 2936: 1–50 (01 Jul. 2011) 0 plates; 118 references                         Accepted: 2 May 2011
Catalog of the Acari types deposited in the American Museum of Natural History, New York (Arthropoda: Arachnida)
FABIO A. HERNANDES (France), JEREMY C. HUFF (USA) & BARRY M. OCONNOR (USA)
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Article
Zootaxa 2933: 1–26 (29 Jun. 2011) 20 plates; 19 references                         Accepted: 19 May 2011
New water mites species of the genus Aturus Kramer (Acariformes, Aturidae) from the Far East of Russia
KSENIA A. SEMENCHENKO & PETR V. TUZOVSKIJ (Russia)
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Article
Zootaxa 2925: 19–32 (21 Jun. 2011) 4 plates; 40 references                         Accepted: 7 Jun. 2011
Parasitism of Apteropanorpa tasmanica Carpenter (Mecoptera: Apteropanorpidae) by larval Leptus agrotis Southcott (Acari: Erythraeidae) and Willungella rufusanus sp. nov. (Acari: Microtrombidiidae)
OWEN D. SEEMAN & CHRISTOPHER M. PALMER (Australia)
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Article
Zootaxa 2922: 34–40 (17 Jun. 2011) 2 plates; 21 references                         Accepted: 17 May 2011
A new species and new host records of syringophilid mites (Acari: Syringophilidae) from passerines from Kenya
MACIEJ SKORACKI (Poland), MARTIN HROMADA (Poland) & WANYOIKE WAMITI (Kenya)
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Article
Zootaxa 2922: 15–26 (17 Jun. 2011) 10 plates; 5 references                         Accepted: 26 May 2011
Two new chigger mites of the genus Lacertacarus (Acari: Prostigmata, Trombiculidae)
STANISLAV KALÚZ (Slovakia)
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Article
Zootaxa 2905: 1–15 (3 Jun. 2011) 4 plates; 32 references                         Accepted: 9 May 2011
 Redescription of Lasioseius floridensis Berlese, 1916 (Acari: Mesostigmata: Blattisociidae), with notes on closely related species
ERIKA P. J. BRITTO (Brazil), EVERT E. LINDQUIST (Canada) & GILBERTO J. DE MORAES (Brazil)
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Article
Zootaxa 2904: 45–65 (2 Jun. 2011) 1 plates; 123 references                         Accepted: 3 May 2011
 Rodents of the subfamily Sigmodontinae (Myomorpha: Cricetidae) as hosts for South American hard ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) with hypotheses on life history
ALBERTO A. GUGLIELMONE & SANTIAGO NAVA (Argentina)
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Article
Zootaxa 2903: 48–56 (2 Jun. 2011) 4 plates; 18 references                        Accepted: 10 May 2011
 Two new species of the genus Elattoma (Acari: Heterostigmatina: Pygmephoridae) phoretic on Morimus verecundus (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) from Iran
VAHID RAHIMINEJAD, HAMIDREZA HAJIQANBAR & YAGHOUB FATHIPOUR (Iran)
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Zootaxa 2883: 23–38 (19 May 2011) 6 plates; 43 references                       Accepted: 21 Apr. 2011
 New species and new records of mites of the family Laelapidae (Acari: Mesostigmata) associated with Coleoptera in Iran
OMID JOHARCHI (Iran) & BRUCE HALLIDAY (Australia)
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Article
Zootaxa 2876: 30–34 (12 May 2011) 2 plates; 18 references                     Accepted: 29 Mar. 2011
Description of a new species and complementary description of a known species of Iphiseiodes De Leon (Acari: Phytoseiidae)
JEFERSON LUIZ DE CARVALHO MINEIRO, TATIANE MARIE MARTINS GOMES DE CASTRO & GILBERTO JOSÉ DE MORAES (Brazil)
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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2840: 1–414 (29 Apr. 2011) 296 plates; 137 references                Accepted: 12 Jan. 2011
Quill mites (Acari: Syringophilidae) of the Palaearctic region 
MACIEJ SKORACKI (Poland)
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Article
Zootaxa 2834: 47–56 (27 Apr. 2011) 6 plates; 10 references                         Accepted: 5 Apr. 2011
Two new species of Linotetranus (Parasitiformes: Tetranychoidea: Linotetranidae) from Iran
MOHAMMAD KHANJANI, BAHMAN ASALI FAYAZ & MASOUMEH KHANJANI (Iran)
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Article
Zootaxa 2828: 38–50 (21 Apr. 2011) 8 plates; 18 references                     Accepted: 24 Mar. 2011
Three new species of eriophyoid mites (Acari: Prostigmata: Eriophyoidea) from Montenegro
IVONA JOČIĆ (Montenegro), RADMILA PETANOVIĆ (Serbia) & BILJANA VIDOVIĆ (Serbia)
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Article
Zootaxa 2828: 19–37 (21 Apr. 2011) 9 plates; 57 references                      Accepted: 17 Mar. 2011
 A new genus of oribatid mite, Spineremaeus gen. nov. and three new species of Scapheremaeus (Acari: Oribatida: Cymbaeremaeidae) from Norfolk Island,South-west Pacific, and their biogeographical affinities
MATTHEW J. COLLOFF (Australia)
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Article
Zootaxa 2823: 47–60 (18 Apr. 2011) 8 plates; 18 references                       Accepted: 14 Mar. 2011
 Psammophilous halacarid mites (Trombidiformes, Halacaridae) from the North Coast of São Paulo State, Brazil
ALMIR R. PEPATO, CLÁUDIO G. TIAGO & CARLOS E. F. ROCHA (Brazil)
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Article
Zootaxa 2817: 63–68 (13 Apr. 2011) 4 plates; 8 references                        Accepted: 26 Mar. 2011
New species of quill mites (Acari, Cheyletoidea, Syringophilidae) and the first record of male for the genus Stibarokris
ELIZA GLOWSKA & MACIEJ SKORACKI (Poland)
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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2817: 59–62 (13 Apr. 2011) 2 plates; 13 references                      Accepted: 26 Mar. 2011
 The genus Coleobonzia declared synonymous with Neobonzia Smiley, 1992 (Bdelloidea: Cunaxidae: Coleoscirinae)
JACOB DEN HEYER (South Africa)
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Article
Zootaxa 2809: 47–57 (5 Apr. 2011) 4 plates; 36 references                             Accepted: 7 Mar. 2011
 Nomenclature changes in the mite families Neopygmephoridae and Pygmephoridae (Acari: Heterostigmata: Pygmephoroidea) with redescription of two little known species
ALEXANDR A. KHAUSTOV (Ukraine)
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Article
Zootaxa 2807: 41–56 (1 Apr. 2011) 5 plates; 31 references                         Accepted: 2 Mar. 2011
Laelapidae (Acari: Mesostigmata) on megachiropteran bats: new records and a new species of Neolaelaps Hirst
MATTHEW D. SHAW (Australia)
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Article
Zootaxa 2807: 1–28 (1 Apr. 2011) 15 plates; 55 references                         Accepted: 4 Mar. 2011
Uropodina species from Vietnam (Acari: Mesostigmata)
JENŐ KONTSCHÁN (Hungary) & JOSEF STARÝ (Czech Republic)
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Article
Zootaxa 2800: 53–63 (25 Mar. 2011) 4 plates; 42 references                     Accepted: 28 Feb. 2011
 A new species of Hemipteroseius (Acari: Otopheidomenidae) parasitic on Dysdercus (Hemiptera: Pyrrhocoridae) in India
PRATIBHA MENON, SUSHILA JOSHI, MOHAMMAD HUSSAIN & V.V. RAMAMURTHY (India)
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Article
Zootaxa 2800: 19–40 (25 Mar. 2011) 4 plates; 38 references                     Accepted: 23 Feb. 2011
 Halacarus socius (Acari: Halacaridae), description of the male and diagnoses of species of the Halacarus actenos group
ILSE BARTSCH (Germany)
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Article
Zootaxa 2798: 37–47 (23 Mar. 2011) 6 plates; 10 references                         Accepted: 1 Mar. 2011
Eriophyoid mites from Hainan Province, China III: Descriptions of three new genera and three new species of Colomerini (Acari: Eriophyoidea)
XIAO-FENG XUE, LI-SHENG CHENG & XIAO-YUE HONG (P.R. China)
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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2796: 67–68 (21 Mar. 2011) 1 plates; 2 references                           Accepted: 8 Mar. 2011
Extended distribution and host plants of Nameriophyes sapidae Xue & Zhang 2008 (Acari: Eriophyidae) in New Zealand
NICHOLAS A. MARTIN & ZHI-QIANG ZHANG (New Zealand)
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Article
Zootaxa 2796: 56–66 (21 Mar. 2011) 4 plates; 24 references                         Accepted: 1 Mar. 2011
A new Aceria species (Acari: Eriophyoidea) on Echinops ritro L. subsp. ruthenicus (M.Bieb.) Nyman (Asteraceae) from Serbia and a supplement to the original description of Aceria brevicincta (Nalepa 1898)
BILJANA VIDOVIĆ (Serbia)
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Article
Zootaxa 2796: 29–36 (21 Mar. 2011) 4 plates; 13 references                        Accepted: 21 Feb. 2011
 A new genus and species of Cheyletidae (Acariformes: Prostigmata) from citrus trees in Florida
BIN XIA (P.R. China), HANS KLOMPEN (USA) & CARL C. CHILDERS (USA)
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Article
Zootaxa 2793: 1–22 (17 Mar. 2011) 11 plates; 35 references                      Accepted: 10 Feb. 2011
 Systematics of the genus Syringophilopsis Kethley, 1970 (Acari: Prostigmata: Syringophilidae) with description of three new species from North American passerines
MACIEJ SKORACKI (Poland), SARAH A. HENDRICKS (USA) & GREG S. SPICER (USA)
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Article
Zootaxa 2785: 1–31 (8 Mar. 2011) 74 plates; 11 references                           Accepted: 21 Jan. 2011
Six new species of Prozercon Sellnick, 1943 (Acari, Mesostigmata, Zerconidae) from Greece, with remarks on the genus
ZSOLT UJVÁRI (Hungary)
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Article
Zootaxa 2783: 2 1–34 (4 Mar. 2011) 10 plates; 10 references                        Accepted: 19 Jan. 2011
New records of water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) from southern Iran, with description of one new genus and three new species
VLADIMIR PEŠIĆ (Serbia and Montenegro), HARRY SMIT (The Netherlands), MAHDIEH ASADI (Iran) & ISA ETEMADI (Iran)
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Article
Zootaxa 2779: 39–62 (28 Feb. 2011) 18 plates; 19 references                      Accepted: 26 Jan. 2011
Water mites of the genus Monatractides Viets (Acari: Hydrachnidia, Torrenticolidae) from New Guinea, with descriptions of nine new species
VLADIMIR PEŠIĆ (Serbia and Montenegro) & HARRY SMIT (The Netherlands)
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Article
Zootaxa 2775: 1–36 (24 Feb. 2011) 19 plates; 97 references                       Accepted: 11 Jan. 2011
Differentiation of external morphology of Damaeidae (Acari: Oribatida) in light of the ontogeny of three species
STANISŁAW SENICZAK & ANNA SENICZAK (Poland)
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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2770: 1–60 (21 Feb. 2011) 35 plates; 65 references                       Accepted: 24 Nov. 2010
New species of the oribatid mite genus Phyllhermannia Berlese, 1916 (Acari, Oribatida, Hermanniidae) from wet forests in south-eastern Australia show a high diversity of morphologically-similar, short-range endemics
MATTHEW J. COLLOFF (Australia)
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Article
Zootaxa 2758: 1–25 (7 Feb. 2011) 11 plates; 65 references                             Accepted: 5 Jan. 2011
A new genus of fungus-inhabiting blattisociid mites (Acari: Mesostigmata: Phytoseioidea) from Middle America, with a key to genera and subgenera of the subfamily Blattisociinae
MARÍA L. MORAZA (Spain) & EVERT E. LINDQUIST (Canada)
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Erratum 
Zootaxa 2757: 68 (4 Feb. 2011) 
Erratum: XIE, LIXIA & YANG, MAOFA (2008) Notes on the subgenus Tectodamaeus (Acari: Oribatida: Damaeidae), with the description of a new species from China. Zootaxa, 2727, 56–62.
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Article
Zootaxa 2753: 42–52 (31 Jan. 2011) 4 plates; 17 references                            Accepted: 5 Jan. 2011
Afrophilodana africana n. gen, n. sp. (Acari: Mesostigmata) from Kenya: the second species of the family Philodanidae
JENŐ KONTSCHÁN (Hungary) & OWEN SEEMAN (Australia)
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Article
Zootaxa 2752: 45–61 (31 Jan. 2011) 8 plates; 30 references                            Accepted: 8 Jan. 2011
 Species of Euphthiracarus (Acari: Oribatida: Euphthiracaridae) from China
DONG LIU, DONGHUI WU & JUN CHEN (P.R. China)
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Article
Zootaxa 2747: 19–36 (24 Jan. 2011) 8 plates; 10 references                         Accepted: 14 Dec. 2010
 New species of Klinckowstroemia Baker & Wharton, 1952 (Acari: Klinckowstroemiidae), associated with passalid beetles from Mexico and Panama
GABRIEL A. VILLEGAS-GUZMÁN, PEDRO REYES-CASTILLO & TILA M. PÉREZ (Mexico)
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Article
Zootaxa 2746: 57–68 (21 Jan. 2011) 13 plates; 6 references                         Accepted: 10 Dec. 2010
A new species of the family Trochometridiidae (Acari: Heterostigmatina) associated with Paulusiella sp. (Coleoptera: Elateridae) from Iran
ABDOLAZIM MORTAZAVI, HAMIDREZA HAJIQANBAR & ALIREZA SABOORI (Iran)
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Article
Zootaxa 2746: 25–42 (21 Jan. 2011) 12 plates; 28 references                         Accepted: 7 Dec. 2010
Water mites of the family Aturidae Thor, 1900 from Turkey (Acari: Hydrachnidia), with description of two new species
YUNUS ESEN (Turkey), VLADIMIR PEŠIĆ (Montenegro) & ORHAN ERMAN (Montenegro)
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Article
Zootaxa 2741: 59–65 (17 Jan. 2011) 2 plates; 25 references                          Accepted: 14 Dec. 2010
 Two species of Neocypholaelaps from Sri Lanka (Acari: Ameroseiidae), with description of a new species
JOÃO P. Z. NARITA (Brazil), GILBERTO J. DE MORAES (Brazil) & LIYANAGE C. P. FERNANDO (Sri Lanka)
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Article
Zootaxa 2739: 60–68 (13 Jan. 2011) 4 plates; 7 references                            Accepted: 15 Dec. 2010
New and little known species of ptyctimous mites (Acari, Oribatida) from Ethiopia
WOJCIECH NIEDBAŁA (Poland) & SERGEY G. ERMILOV (Russia)
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Article
Zootaxa 2739: 1–26 (13 Jan. 2011) 10 plates; 61 references                          Accepted: 14 Dec. 2010
 Review of Plonaphacarus (Acari: Oribatida: Steganacaridae), with descriptions of eight new species from China
DONG LIU, DONGHUI WU & JUN CHEN (P.R. China)
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Article
Zootaxa 2738: 60–68 (12 Jan. 2011) 8 plates; 10 references                         Accepted: 10 Dec. 2010
 First Iranian species of Neosilphitrombium (Acari: Prostigmata: Neothrombiidae) with a key to world species
ALIREZA SABOORI, HAMIDREZA HAJIQANBAR & MASOUD HAKIMITABAR (Iran)
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Article
Zootaxa 2738: 41–59 (12 Jan. 2011) 13 plates; 10 references                        Accepted: 10 Dec. 2010
 Four new water mite species of the genus Atractides Koch (Acari: Hydrachnidia: Hygrobatidae) from Russia
PETR V. TUZOVSKIJ (Russia)
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Article
Zootaxa 2732: 59–67 (5 Jan. 2011) 5 plates; 15 references                          Accepted: 23 Nov. 2010
Two new species of protoplophorid mites (Acari: Oribatida: Protoplophoridae) from Thailand
MARUT FUANGARWORN (Thailand)
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Article
Zootaxa 2727: 56–62 (21 Dec. 2010) 1 plates; 12 references                         Accepted: 24 Nov. 2010
 Notes on the subgenus Tectodamaeus (Acari: Oribatida: Damaeidae), with the description of a new species from China
LIXIA XIE & MAOFA YANG (CHINA)
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Article
Zootaxa 2727: 34–44 (21 Dec. 2010) 4 plates; 23 references                         Accepted: 20 Nov. 2010
Stigmaeus boshroyehensis sp. nov. (Acari: Stigmaeidae) from eastern Iran, with re-description of Stigmaeus pilatus Kuznetzov
MOHAMMAD KHANJANI (Iran), HAMZEH IZADI (Iran), BAHMAN ASALI FAYAZ (Iran), HOSEIN RAISI (Iran), ELAHEH ROSTAMI (Iran) & SALİH DOĞAN (Turkey)
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Article
Zootaxa 2727: 1–20 (21 Dec. 2010) 13 plates; 25 references                           Accepted: 4 Dec. 2010
 Five new species of predaceous cheyletid mites (Acari: Prostigmata: Cheyletidae)
ANDRE V. BOCHKOV (Russia) & JURGEN C. OTTO (Australia)
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Article
Zootaxa 2723: 1–40 (15 Dec. 2010) 29 plates; 28 references                         Accepted: 10 Dec. 2010
 Two new species of Pyemotes closely related to P. tritici (Acari: Pyemotidae)
LICHEN YU (China), ZHI-QIANG ZHANG (New Zealand) & LIMIN HE (China)
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Article
Zootaxa 2719: 41–61 (10 Dec. 2010) 18 plates; 13 references                       Accepted: 20 Nov. 2010
 Genus Acalvolia (Acari: Winterschmidtiidae), with the description of a new species from the USA
QING-HAI FAN, SHERLY GEORGE & LALITH KUMARASINGHE (New Zealand)
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Article
Zootaxa 2694: 43–56 (2 Dec. 2010) 8 plates; 20 references                            Accepted: 12 Nov. 2010
Eriophyoid mites (Acari: Prostigmata: Eriophyoidea) from fruit trees in Northeastern Brazil—a new genus, three new species and a redescription
ALEUNY C. REIS, MANOEL G. C. GONDIM JR., DENISE NÁVIA & CARLOS H. W. FLECHTMANN (Brazil)
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Article
Zootaxa 2684: 14–24 (23 Nov. 2010) 7 plates; 7 references                              Accepted: 6 Oct. 2010
 Three new species and one new record of the subgenus Hispidosperchon Thor, 1901 within the genus Sperchon Kramer, 1877 from China (Acari: Sperchontidae)
XU ZHANG & DAO-CHAO JIN (P.R. China)
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Article
Zootaxa 2681: 20–34 (19 Nov. 2010) 9 plates; 43 references                          Accepted: 21 Oct. 2010
Three new species of Galumnidae (Acari: Oribatida) from Cat Tien National Park, southern Vietnam
SERGEY G. ERMILOV (Russia) & ALEXANDER E. ANICHKIN (Vietnam)
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Article
Zootaxa 2680: 55–64 (18 Nov. 2010) 4 plates; 21 references                           Accepted: 20 Oct. 2010
 Post-larval stages of Ascoschoengastia (Laurentella) lorius (Gunther) (Acariformes: Trombiculidae) provide evidence for a nest-based life history
MATTHEW SHAW (Australia)
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Article
Zootaxa 2677: 15–26 (16 Nov. 2010) 7 plates; 50 references                              Accepted: 21 Oct. 2010
A review of the eriophyoid mites (Acari: Eriophyoidea) on Rubus spp. in Britain, with a new species (Diptilomiopidae) and two new records
DANIEL R. L. PYE (UK) & ENRICO DE LILLO (Italy)
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Article
Zootaxa 2672: 29–49 (10 Nov. 2010) 7 plates; 23 references                           Accepted: 12 Oct. 2010
A morphological study of the genus Penthalodes (Acari, Prostigmata, Eupodoidea, Penthalodidae) with description of a new species 
KATARZYNA JESIONOWSKA (Poland)
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Article
Zootaxa 2666: 45–67 (3 Nov. 2010) 9 plates; 49 references                           Accepted: 18 Oct. 2010
Redescription of the fossil oribatid mite Scutoribates perornatus, with implications for systematics of Unduloribatidae (Acari: Oribatida)
EKATERINA A. SIDORCHUK (Russia) & ROY A. NORTON (USA)
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Zootaxa 2666: 29–44 (3 Nov. 2010) 10 plates; 9 references                             Accepted: 21 Oct. 2010
Five new species of Anthocoptini from China (Acari: Eriophyidae)
 XIAO-FENG XUE, ZI-WEI SONG & XIAO-YUE HONG (P.R. China)
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 2660: 68 (28 Oct. 2010) 0 plates; 3 references                                      Accepted: 5 Oct. 2010
Axonopsis kermanica nom. n., a new replacement name for the water mite A. iranica Pešić & Asadi, 2010 (Acari: Hydrachnidia, Aturidae)
VLADIMIR PEŠIĆ (Montenegro) & MAHDIEH ASADI (Iran)
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Article
Zootaxa 2650: 1–18 (19 Oct. 2010) 9 plates; 40 references                             Accepted: 22 Sep. 2010
New species of Crotonia (Acari: Oribatida: Crotoniidae) from Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands: further evidence of long-distance dispersal events in the biogeography of a genus of Gondwanan relict oribatid mites
MATTHEW J. COLLOFF (Australia)
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Article
Zootaxa 2649: 61–68 (18 Oct. 2010) 3 plates; 18 references                            Accepted: 21 Sep. 2010
Adamystis thailandensis sp. nov. (Acari: Prostigmata: Adamystidae), a new species of soil mites from Thailand with a key to world species of Adamystidae
MARUT FUANGARWORN & CHARIYA LEKPRAYOON (Thailand)
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Article
Zootaxa 2649: 1–51 (18 Oct. 2010) 21 plates; 42 references                            Accepted: 14 Sep. 2010
The Gondwanan relict oribatid genus Crotonia (Acari: Oribatida: Crotoniidae) from rainforests in Queensland and Northern New South Wales: new species show a mixed pattern of short-range and long-range endemism
MATTHEW J. COLLOFF (Australia)
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Article
Zootaxa 2647: 16–34 (15 Oct. 2010) 4 plates; 60 references                            Accepted: 18 Sep. 2010
A new species of Valgothrombium Willmann, 1940, with additional taxonomic data for Valgothrombiinae genera known as larvae (Acari: Prostigmata: Microtrombidiidae)
JOANNA MĄKOL & JOANNA ŁAYDANOWICZ (Poland)
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Article
Zootaxa 2647: 1–15 (15 Oct. 2010) 5 plates; 45 references                             Accepted: 28 Sep. 2010
 Identification and molecular phylogeny of agriculturally important spider mites (Acari: Tetranychidae) based on mitochondrial and nuclear ribosomal DNA sequences, with an emphasis on Tetranychus
GUO-QING LI, XIAO-FENG XUE, KAI-JUN ZHANG & XIAO-YUE HONG (P.R. China)
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Article
Zootaxa 2646: 43–62 (14 Oct. 2010) 17 plates; 20 references                         Accepted: 22 Sep. 2010
 New species of oribatid mites of the superfamily Galumnoidea (Acari: Oribatida) from Ethiopia
SERGEY G. ERMILOV, EKATERINA A. SIDORCHUK & LEONID B. RYBALOV (Russia)
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Article
Zootaxa 2631: 62–68 (30 Sep. 2010) 4 plates; 15 references                              Accepted: 7 Jul. 2010
 Two new species of Ameroidea (Acari: Oribatida) from Madagascar
SÁNDOR MAHUNKA (Hungary)
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Article
Zootaxa 2628: 43–55 (28 Sep. 2010) 6 plates; 23 references                          Accepted: 31 Aug. 2010
A revised survey of water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) from Iran: new synonyms and descriptions of three new species
MAHDIEH ASADI (Iran), VLADIMIR PEŠIĆ (Serbia and Montenegro) & ISA ETEMADI (Iran)
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Article
Zootaxa 2625: 63–68 (24 Sep. 2010) 3 plates; 11 references                          Accepted: 23 Aug. 2010
Three holarctic new species of ptyctimous mites (Acari, Oribatida)
WOJCIECH NIEDBAŁA (Poland) & JOSEF STARÝ (Czech Republic)
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Article
Zootaxa 2624: 1–48 (24 Sep. 2010) 5 plates; 120 references                          Accepted: 21 Aug. 2010
A checklist of the water mites of Turkey (Acari: Hydrachnidia) with description of two new species
ORHAN ERMAN (Turkey), VLADIMIR PEŠIĆ (Serbia and Montenegro), YUNUS ESEN (Turkey) & MUHLİS ÖZKAN (Turkey)
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Zootaxa 2617: 1–54 (20 Sep. 2010) 13 plates; 58 references                          Accepted: 26 Aug. 2010
A checklist of the water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) of India, with new records and description of one new species
VLADIMIR PEŠIĆ (Serbia and Montenegro), TAPAS CHATTERJEE (India) & SABITRY BORDOLOI (India)
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Article
Zootaxa 2611: 16–30 (14 Sep. 2010) 6 plates; 13 references                          Accepted: 18 Aug. 2010
 A new family of trombidioid mites (Acari: Prostigmata) from Iran
ALIREZA SABOORI (Iran), ANDREAS WOHLTMANN (Germany) & MASOUD HAKIMITABAR (Iran)
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Article
Zootaxa 2606: 50–54 (9 Sep. 2010) 2 plates; 8 references                                Accepted: 14 Aug. 2010
 Two new species of the genus Arrenurus from Pohnpei, Federal States of Micronesia (Acari: Hydrachnidia: Arrenuridae)
HARRY SMIT (The Netherlands)
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Article
Zootaxa 2600: 61–65 (1 Sep. 2010) 0 plates; 66 references                             Accepted: 18 Aug. 2010
Clarification of the status of the genus names Leiodes Latreille 1796 (Coleoptera), Liodes von Heyden 1826 (Acari) and Neoliodes Berlese 1888 (Acari)
R.B. HALLIDAY (Australia) & C.G. MAJKA (Canada)
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Article
Zootaxa 2600: 53–60 (1 Sep. 2010) 6 plates; 14 references                               Accepted: 5 Aug. 2010
Three new species of mites of the genus Bakerdania Sasa, 1961 (Acari: Heterostigmata: Neopygmephoridae) from “Cape Martyan” Nature Reserve, Crimea
ALEXANDR A. KHAUSTOV (Ukraine)
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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2596: 1–60 (31 Aug. 2010) 22 plates; 105 references                           Accepted: 1 Jun. 2010
 Revision of the Australian Eviphididae (Acari: Mesostigmata)
R. B. HALLIDAY (Australia)
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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2586: 1–100 (31 Aug. 2010) 17 plates; 134 references                        Accepted: 4 May 2010
The water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) of the Balkan peninsula, a revised survey with new records and descriptions of five new taxa
VLADIMIR PEŠIĆ (Serbia and Montenegro), HARRY SMIT (The Netherlands), REINHARD GERECKE (Germany) & ANTONIO DI SABATINO (Italy)
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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2585: 1–122 (31 Aug. 2010) 42 plates; 285 references                         Accepted: 1 Jun. 2010
Review of the European genera of Eviphididae (Acari: Mesostigmata) and the species occurring in Slovakia
PETER MAŠÁN (Slovakia) & BRUCE HALLIDAY (Australia)
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Article
Zootaxa 2578: 1–24 (27 Aug. 2010) 22 plates; 16 references                           Accepted: 22 Jul. 2010
New spider mite genus (Prostigmata: Tetranychidae) from Australia & New Zealand, with a discussion of Yezonychus Ehara
JENNIFER BEARD (Australia) & DAVID EVANS WALTER (Canada)
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Article
Zootaxa 2558: 33–47 (4 Aug. 2010) 8 plates; 28 references                            Accepted: 28 Jun. 2010
 Zerconella Willmann, 1953, a forgotten group of Zerconidae (Acari: Mesostigmata)
ZSOLT UJVÁRI (Hungary)
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Article
Zootaxa 2555: 1–29 (2 Aug. 2010) 13 plates; 37 references                                Accepted: 5 Jul. 2010
New zerconid mites (Acari: Mesostigmata: Zerconidae) from Canada, with a review of the genus Mixozercon Halašková, 1963
IRMA DÍAZ-AGUILAR (Mexico) & ZSOLT UJVÁRI (Hungary)
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Article
Zootaxa 2554: 37–44 (30 Jul. 2010) 2 plates; 31 references                           Accepted: 14 Jul. 2010
 Description of a new species of Neocypholaelaps (Acari: Ameroseiidae) from Brazil, with a key to the world species
GILBERTO J. DE MORAES & JOÃO P. Z. NARITA (Brazil)
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Article
Zootaxa 2554: 23–36 (30 Jul. 2010) 10 plates; 10 references                          Accepted: 29 Jun. 2010
Two new chigger mites of the genus Aboriginesia (Acari: Trombiculidae)
JÁN KOVÁČIK & STANISLAV KALÚZ (Slovakia)
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Article
Zootaxa 2548: 22–42 (26 Jul. 2010) 1 plates; 56 references                           Accepted: 24 Jun. 2010
Oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) from Austrocedrus chilensis and Nothofagus forests of Northwestern Patagonia (Argentina)
MARCELO E. KUN, PABLO A. MARTÍNEZ & ALDA GONZALEZ (Argentina)
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Article
Zootaxa 2546: 52–68 (23 Jul. 2010) 9 plates; 26 references                               Accepted: 7 Jul. 2010
Syringophilid mites (Acari: Syringophilidae) of Kazakhstan
MACIEJ SKORACKI (Poland) & ANDRE V. BOCHKOV (Russia)
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Zootaxa 2546: 1–30 (23 Jul. 2010) 24 plates; 31 references                             Accepted: 18 Jun. 2010
Three new species of mites in the genus Castriidinychus Hirschmann from Tasmania (Acari: Uropodidae)
M. DYLEWSKA (Poland), J. BŁOSZYK (Poland) & R. B. HALLIDAY (Australia)
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Article
Zootaxa 2541: 27–49 (19 Jul. 2010) 0 plates; 175 references                          Accepted: 15 Jul. 2010
Hosts of Amblyomma dissimile Koch, 1844 and Amblyomma rotundatum Koch, 1844 (Acari: Ixodidae)
ALBERTO A. GUGLIELMONE & SANTIAGO NAVA (Argentina)
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Article
Zootaxa 2541: 1–26 (19 Jul. 2010) 15 plates; 10 references                            Accepted: 18 Jul. 2010
Australian Arrenurus (Acari, Hydrachnidia) with the description of eleven new species
HARRY SMIT (The Netherlands)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2537 47–57 (15 Jul. 2010) 2 plates; 19 references                            Accepted: 14 Jun. 2010
 Phylogenetic relationships among Unionicola (Acari: Unionicolidae) mussel-mites of North America based on mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase I sequences
DALE D. EDWARDS, MALCOLM F. VIDRINE & BRIAN R. ERNSTING (USA)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2537 19–32 (15 Jul. 2010) 6 plates; 14 references                             Accepted: 5 Jun. 2010
 Two new larval species of Erythraeus (Zaracarus) (Acari: Erythraeidae) from western Iran
MOHAMMAD KHANJANI, ALI-NAGHI MIRMOAYEDI, ABOULGHASEM REZAI NAHAD & BAHMAN ASALI FAYAZ (Iran)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2533 36–42 (12 Jul. 2010) 4 plates; 11 references                           Accepted: 24 Jun. 2010
Cryptofavognathus, a new genus of the family Cryptognathidae Oudemans (Acari: Raphignathoidea), with the description of a new species from Turkey
SALİH DOĞAN & GÜLDEM DÖNEL (Turkey)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2528 1–28 (6 Jul. 2010) 0 plates; 54 references                                  Accepted: 9 Jun. 2010
 The Argasidae, Ixodidae and Nuttalliellidae (Acari: Ixodida) of the world: a list of valid species names
ALBERTO A. GUGLIELMONE (Argentina), RICHARD G. ROBBINS (USA), DMITRY A. APANASKEVICH (USA), TREVOR N. PETNEY (Germany), AGUSTÍN ESTRADA-PEÑA (Spain), IVAN G. HORAK (South Africa), RENFU SHAO (Australia) & STEPHEN C. BARKER (Australia)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2526 1–36 (5 Jul. 2010) 21 plates; 28 references                            Accepted: 15 May 2010
 Systematic revision of the feather mite genus Protolichus Trouessart, 1884 (Astigmata, Pterolichidae)
SERGEY V. MIRONOV (Russia) & JACEK DABERT (Poland)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2525 63–68 (2 Jul. 2010) 3 plates; 11 references                             Accepted: 15 Jun. 2010
Bloszykiella africana gen. nov., sp. nov., a new mite genus from East Africa (Acari: Mesostigmata: Uropodidae)
JENŐ KONTSCHÁN (Hungary)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2521 53–64 (29 Jun. 2010) 6 plates; 15 references                            Accepted: 2 Jun. 2010
 Two new species of the genus Neophyllobius Berlese (Acari: Camerobiidae) from Iran
MOHAMMAD KHANJANI, BAHMAN ASALI FAYAZ & GADIR NORI GHANBALANI (Iran)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2521 26–36 (29 Jun. 2010) 5 plates; 7 references                            Accepted: 10 Jun. 2010
 Two new species of the oribatid mite genus Phyllochthonius Travé, 1967 (Acari: Oribatida: Phyllochthoniidae) from Thailand
MARUT FUANGARWORN (Thailand)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2514 61–67 (22 Jun. 2010) 4 plates; 11 references                          Accepted: 27 May 2010
 Meitingsunes, a new genus of quill mites (Acari: Cheyletoidea: Syringophilidae)
ELIZA GLOWSKA & MACIEJ SKORACKI (Poland)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2514 35–46 (22 Jun. 2010) 6 plates; 16 references                          Accepted: 27 May 2010
Water mites of the genus Sperchon Kramer (Acari: Hydrachnidia: Sperchontidae) from Turkey, with description of two new species
YUNUS ESEN (Turkey), VLADIMIR PEŠIĆ (Serbia and Montenegro) & ORHAN ERMAN (Turkey)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2504: 61–68 (14 Jun. 2010) 4 plates; 15 references                         Accepted: 15 May 2010
A new genus and species of larval mites (Acari: Prostigmata: Microtrombidiidae) from Iran
ALI SEDGHI, ALIREZA SABOORI, MOHAMMAD ALI AKRAMI & MASOUD HAKIMITABAR (Iran)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2501: 37–53 (10 Jun. 2010) 3 plates; 68 references                          Accepted: 24 Apr. 2010
A reappraisal of some basal lineages of the family Macrochelidae, with the description of a new genus (Acarina: Mesostigmata)
ROWAN M. EMBERSON (New Zealand)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2495: 53–64 (4 Jun. 2010) 5 plates; 28 references                               Accepted: 8 May 2010
 Description of immature stages and redescription of adults of Ixodes luciae Sénevet (Acari: Ixodidae)
VALERIA C. ONOFRIO, MARCELO B. LABRUNA, JOÃO LUIZ H. FACCINI & DARCI M. BARROS-BATTESTI (Brazil)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2494: 59–68 (4 Jun. 2010) 6 plates; 22 references                             Accepted: 11 May 2010
 Two new species of cheyletid mites (Acari: Prostigmata) from Thailand
MARUT FUANGARWORN & CHARIYA LEKPRAYOON (Thailand)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2482: 1–21 (24 May 2010) 14 plates; 12 references                          Accepted: 29 Apr. 2010
The genus Salfacarus (Acari: Opilioacarida) in Madagascar
MA. MAGDALENA VÁZQUEZ G. (Mexico) & HANS KLOMPEN (USA)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2479: 39–58 (20 May 2010) 9 plates; 52 references                          Accepted: 13 Apr. 2010
A review of Mesotritia (Acari: Oribatida: Oribotritiidae) in China, with descriptions of two new species and a checklist of known taxa 
DONG LIU & JUN CHEN (P.R. China)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2479: 1–21 (20 May 2010) 8 plates; 44 references                           Accepted: 19 Apr. 2010
Revised diagnosis of the family Blattisociidae (Acari: Mesostigmata: Phytoseioidea), with a key to its genera and description of a new fungus- inhabiting genus from Costa Rica
EVERT E. LINDQUIST (Canada) & MARIA L. MORAZA (Spain)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2475: 1–38 (17 May 2010) 16 plates; 65 references                         Accepted: 29 Mar. 2010
The hyperdiverse oribatid mite genus Scapheremaeus (Acari: Oribatida: Cymbaeremaeidae) in Australia, with descriptions of new species and consideration of biogeographical affinities
MATTHEW J. COLLOFF (Australia)
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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2474: 1–64 (14 May 2010) 42 plates; 35 references                        Accepted: 23 Mar. 2010
A review of the genus Traegaardhia (Acari, Prostigmata, Rhagidiidae) with descriptions of new species and a key to species 
MILOSLAV ZACHARDA (Czech Republic), DANIEL FONG (USA), HORTON H. HOBBS III (USA), ERMINIO PIVA (Italy), MICHAEL E. SLAY (USA) & STEVEN J. TAYLOR (USA)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2452: 44–50 (12 May 2010) 3 plates; 11 references                          Accepted: 19 Apr. 2010
A new genus and three new species of Nothopodinae (Acari: Eriophyidae) from Guangxi, China
DE-WEI LI, GUO-QUAN WANG & SUI-GAI WEI (P.R. China)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2452: 3 1–43 (12 May 2010) 4 plates; 23 references                          Accepted: 1 Apr. 2010
A new species of Gamasiphis (Acari: Ologamasidae) from Brazil, with a key to species from the Neotropical Region
RAPHAEL C. CASTILHO, GILBERTO J. DE MORAES & JOÃO P. Z. NARITA (Brazil)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2445: 62–68 (5 May 2010) 13 plates; 6 references                              Accepted: 7 Apr. 2010
Two new species of eriophyoid mites (Acari: Eriophyoidea) on persimmon, Diospyros kaki Linn. (Ebenaceae), from Shaanxi Province, China
MAN-CHAO XIE & MING-SHENG ZHU (P.R. China)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2442: 39–50 (3 May 2010) 4 plates; 41 references                          Accepted: 25 Mar. 2010
Four new species of the family Diptilomiopidae (Acari: Eriophyoidea) from China
GUO-QUAN WANG, SUI-GAI WEI & DING YANG (P.R. China)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2429: 52–60 (19 Apr. 2010) 5 plates; 12 references                        Accepted: 11 Mar. 2010
Two new water mites species (Acariformes: Hydrachnidia) from interstitial waters of the Russian Far East
KSENIA A. SEMENCHENKO (Russia)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2413: 51–60 (29 Mar. 2010) 6 plates; 10 references                        Accepted: 15 Feb. 2010
Second contribution to the knowledge of water mites from the Comoros, with the description of one new species (Acari: Hydrachnidia)
HARRY SMIT (The Netherlands), VLADIMIR PESIC (Montenegro) & NATHALIE MARY-SASAL (French Polynesia)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2408: 59–68 (24 Mar. 2010) 5 plates; 9 references                          Accepted: 17 Feb. 2010
The little known genus Forania (Acari, Prostigmata, Erythraeidae)
JAIME G. MAYORAL (USA) & PABLO BARRANCO (Spain)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2403: 10–22 (19 Mar. 2010) 5 plates; 43 references                         Accepted: 29 Jan. 2010
Systematics and ecology of the genus Dendrozetes (Acari: Oribatida: Peloppiidae) from arboreal habitats in Western North America
ZOE LINDO (Canada), MARILYN CLAYTON (Columbia) & VALERIE BEHAN-PELLETIER (Canada)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2399: 31–41 (15 Mar. 2010) 6 plates; 17 references                         Accepted: 10 Feb. 2010
Systematics of the ectoparasitic quill mites of the genus Aulobia Kethley, 1970 (Acari: Syringophilidae) with the description of a new species
MACIEJ SKORACKI (Poland), SARAH A. HENDRICKS (USA) & GREG S. SPICER (USA)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2393: 1–16 (9 Mar. 2010) 6 plates; 32 references                              Accepted: 17 Dec. 2009
Scapheremaeus rodickae n. sp. (Acari: Oribatida: Cymbaeremaeidae) associated with temporary rock pools in Georgia, with key to Scapheremaeus species in eastern USA and Canada
ROY A. NORTON (USA), ELIZABETH FRANKLIN (Brazil) & D. A. CROSSLEY, JR. (USA)
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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2361: 68 (17 Feb. 2010) 0 plates; 4 references                                 Accepted: 15 Jan. 2009
The taxonomic status of the water mite genera Todothyas Cook and Parathyas Lundblad—supplement to Di Sabatino et al. (2009)
ANTONIO DI SABATINO (Italy), REINHARD GERECKE (Germany), TERENCE GLEDHILL (UK) & HARRY SMIT (The Netherlands)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2355: 1–34 (10 Feb. 2010) 23 plates; 18 references                            Accepted: 5 Jan. 2010
Water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) from the hyporheic waters of the Selwyn River (New Zealand), with descriptions of nine new species 
VLADIMIR PESIC (Serbia and Montenegro), HARRY SMIT (The Netherlands) & THIBAULT DATRY (France)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2354: 19–34 (9 Feb. 2010) 9 plates; 16 references                            Accepted: 15 Jan. 2010
New records of water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) from Malaysia, with descriptions of three new species
VLADIMIR PESIC (Serbia and Montenegro) & HARRY SMIT (The Netherlands)
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Zootaxa 2341: 1–32 (22 Jan. 2010) 22 plates; 43 references                          Accepted: 19 Dec. 2009
New taxa of quill mites (Acari: Cheyletoidea: Syringophilidae)
MACIEJ SKORACKI (Poland) & BARRY OCONNOR (USA)
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Zootaxa 2337: 18–30 (18 Jan. 2010) 7 plates; 11 references                          Accepted: 15 Dec. 2009
New taxa in the Eriophyidae (Acari, Prostigmata) from forest trees in southern Brazil
CARLOS H. W. FLECHTMANN & DALVA L. DE QUEIROZ (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 2332: 1–20 (11 Jan. 2010) 6 plates; 57 references                           Accepted: 27 Nov. 2009
The first sexually dimorphic species of Oribatella (Acari, Oribatida, Oribatellidae) and a review of sexual dimorphism in the Brachypylina
VALERIE M. BEHAN-PELLETIER & BARBARA EAMER (Canada)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2327: 44–50 (4 Jan. 2010) 1 plates; 10 references                           Accepted: 21 Nov. 2009
Helminth parasites of some freshwater fishes from Baja California Sur, Mexico 
OSCAR MÉNDEZ, GUILLERMO SALGADO-MALDONADO, JUAN MANUEL CASPETAMANDUJANO & GUILLERMINA CABAÑAS-CARRANZA (Mexico)
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2009 (71 articles; 3 correspondence; 4 monographs)  10 papers  open access 

Article
Zootaxa 2326: 51-61 (24 Dec. 2009) 6 plates; 13 references                          Accepted: 17 Nov. 2009
Atelophyllodes gen. n., a new feather mite genus of the family Proctophyllodidae (Astigmata: Analgoidea) from lyrebirds (Passeriformes: Menuridae)
SERGEY V. MIRONOV (Russia) & HEATHER C. PROCTOR (Canada)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2318: 8-37 (22 Dec. 2009) 6 plates; 115 references                     Accepted: 28 Oct. 2009
Oribatid mite (Arachnida: Oribatida) coenoses from SW Sardinia
MASSIMO MIGLIORINI (Italy)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2313: 35-60 (17 Dec. 2009) 12 plates; 27 references                        Accepted: 25 Nov. 2009
Seven new species of Phyllocoptes Nalepa from Tibet Autonomous Region, China (Acari: Eriophyidae: Phyllocoptinae)
ZI-WEI SONG, XIAO-FENG XUE & XIAO-YUE HONG (P.R. China)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2312: 60-68 (16 Dec. 2009) 4 plates; 12 references                          Accepted: 25 Nov. 2009
One new genus and four new species of Tegonotini (Acari: Eriophyidae) from Guangxi, South China
SUIGAI WEI, GUOQUAN WANG & AIZHI QIN (P.R. China)
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Article
Zootaxa 2309: 30-42 (11 Dec. 2009) 3 plates; 38 references                          Accepted: 18 Nov. 2009
 A revision of the genus Sierraphytoptus Keifer 1939 (Eriophyoidea, Phytoptidae)
PHILIPP E. CHETVERIKOV & SOGDIANA I. SUKHAREVA (Russia)
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Article
Zootaxa 2305: 1-23 (7 Dec. 2009) 12 plates; 27 references                          Accepted: 11 Nov. 2009
Six new species of Aculus Keifer from Tibet Autonomous Region, China (Acari: Eriophyoidea: Eriophyidae: Phyllocoptinae)
ZI-WEI SONG, XIAO-FENG XUE & XIAO-YUE HONG (P.R. China)
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Article
Zootaxa 2294: 47-61 (20 Nov. 2009) 6 plates; 29 references                          Accepted: 28 Oct. 2009
 Unduloribates from North America (Acari, Oribatida, Unduloribatidae)
VALERIE M. BEHAN-PELLETIER & DAVID E. WALTER (Canada)
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 2293: 68 (19 Nov. 2009) 0 plates; 1 references                               Accepted: 28 Oct. 2009
A replacement name for Dendrodus Olivier, 2008, and validation of Dendrochaetidae Olivier, 2008 nomen nudum (Acari: Prostigmata)
PIETER A.S. OLIVIER (South Africa)
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Article
Zootaxa 2291: 1-23 (17 Nov. 2009) 14 plates; 19 references                          Accepted: 22 Oct. 2009
Seven new species of Phyllocoptini from Tibet Autonomous Region, China (Acari: Eriophyidae: Phyllocoptinae)
ZI-WEI SONG, XIAO-FENG XUE & XIAO-YUE HONG (P.R. China)
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Article
Zootaxa 2290: 59-64 (16 Nov. 2009) 2 plates; 5 references                          Accepted: 7 Oct. 2009
A redefinition of Iranothyas Bader, 1984 with the description of a new species from Oman
VLADIMIR PESIC (Serbia and Montenegro), REINHARD GERECKE (Germany) & HARRY SMIT (The Netherlands)
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Article
Zootaxa 2269: 1-31 (21 Oct. 2009) 16 plates; 56 references                          Accepted: 29 Sep. 2009
Comparative morphological and biometrical studies on Trhypochthonius species of the tectorum species group (Acari: Oribatida: Trhypochthoniidae)
GERD WEIGMANN (Germany) & GÜNTHER RASPOTNIG (Austria)
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Article
Zootaxa 2266: 1-34 (16 Oct. 2009) 1 plates; 93 references                          Accepted: 8 Sep. 2009
On the taxonomy of water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) described from the Palaearctic, part 2: Hydryphantoidea and Lebertioidea
ANTONIO DI SABATINO (Italy), REINHARD GERECKE (Germany), TERENCE GLEDHILL (UK) & HARRY SMIT (The Netherlands)
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Monograph
Zootaxa 2257: 1-128 (8 Oct. 2009) 8 plates; 217 references                         Accepted: 9 Sep. 2009
Eriophyoid mites (Acari: Prostigmata) in Southeast Asia: a synopsis of 104 genera, with an illustrated key to genera and checklist of species
XIAO-FENG XUE (China) & ZHI-QIANG ZHANG (New Zealand)
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Monograph
Zootaxa 2253: 1-95 (8 Oct. 2009) 24 plates; 132 references                         Accepted: 1 Sep. 2009
Eriophyoid mites on Fagaceae with descriptions of seven new genera and eleven new species (Acari: Eriophyoidea)
XIAO-FENG XUE, ZHEN WANG, ZI-WEI SONG & XIAO-YUE HONG (China)
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Article
Zootaxa 2248: 1-46 (6 Oct. 2009) 23 plates; 21 references                          Accepted: 10 Sep. 2009
New species of the genus Klinckowstroemia Baker &Wharton from Mexico (Acari: Mesostigmata: Trigynaspida: Klinckowstroemiidae)
GABRIEL A. VILLEGAS-GUZMAN, TILA M. PÉREZ & PEDRO REYES-CASTILLO (Mexico)
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Article
Zootaxa 2243: 1-39 (30 Sep. 2009) 12 plates; 88 references                          Accepted: 4 Sep. 2009
Anystipalpus, Antennoseius and Vitzthumia: a taxonomic and nomenclatural conundrum of genera (Acari: Mesostigmata: Dermanyssina), with description of four species of Anystipalpus
EVERT E. LINDQUIST (Canada) & MARÍA L. MORAZA (Spain)
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Article
Zootaxa 2241: 1-21 (28 Sep. 2009) 14 plates; 24 references                          Accepted: 9 Sep. 2009
New water mites species (Acariformes: Hydrachnidia) from the Far East of Russia
PETR V. TUZOVSKIJ & KSENIA A. SEMENCHENKO (Russia)
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Article
Zootaxa 2240: 41-59 (25 Sep. 2009) 3 plates; 84 references                          Accepted: 1 Sep. 2009
Phytoseiid mites on grasses in Brazil (Acari: Phytoseiidae)
ANTONIO C. LOFEGO, PETERSON R. DEMITE, RAQUEL G. KISHIMOTO & GILBERTO J. DE MORAES (Brazil)
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Article
Zootaxa 2240: 1-30 (25 Sep. 2009) 21 plates; 15 references                          Accepted: 2 Sep. 2009
New records of water mites of the genus Atractides Koch, 1837 (Acari: Hydrachnidia, Hygrobatidae) from Thailand, Malaysia and Sulawesi (Indonesia), with the description of four new species
VLADIMIR PESIC (Montenegro) & HARRY SMIT (The Netherlands)
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Article
Zootaxa 2234: 21-38 (17 Sep. 2009) 9 plates; 25 references                          Accepted: 29 Jul. 2009
Water mites of the genus Limnesia Koch, 1836 (Acari: Hydrachnidia, Limnesiidae) from China, with description of four new species
TIANCI YI & DAOCHAO JIN (China)
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Article
Zootaxa 2232: 61-68 (15 Sep. 2009) 4 plates; 8 references                          Accepted: 26 Aug. 2009
Pterygosoma (Pterygosoma) pseudotrapelus sp. nov. (Acariformes: Pterygosomatidae)—ectoparasite of Pseudotrapelus sinaitus (Squamata: Agamidae) from Jordan
ANDRE V. BOCHKOV, DANIEL A. MELNIKOV & ROMAN. A. NAZAROV (Russia)
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Article
Zootaxa 2232: 29-49 (15 Sep. 2009) 14 plates; 10 references                          Accepted: 10 Aug. 2009
Five new species of Tetranychidae (Acarina, Prostigmata) from south Tunisian oasis areas
PHILIPPE AUGER (France), SAMAH BEN CHAABAN (Tun isia), KAOUTHAR LEBDI GRISSA (Tunisia), OTHMAN KHOUALDIA (Tun isia) & CARLOS H.W. FLECHTMANN (Brazil)
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Article
Zootaxa 2217: 1-36 (2 Sep. 2009) 19 plates; 70 references                           Accepted: 4 Aug. 2009
New species of Crotonia (Acari: Oribatida: Camisiidae) from Nothofagus and Eucalyptus forests in Victoria, Australia, with a redescription of the fossil species Crotonia ramus (Womersley, 1957)
MATTHEW J. COLLOFF and GISELLE PERDOMO (Australia)
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Article
Zootaxa 2213: 47-56 (28 Aug. 2009) 6 plates; 7 references                           Accepted: 24 Jul. 2009
New species of water mites from the Comoros (Acari: Hydrachnidia)  
HARRY SMIT (The Netherlands), VLADIMIR PESIC (Montenegro) & NATHALIE MARY-SASAL (French Polynesia)
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Article
Zootaxa 2213: 1-46 (28 Aug. 2009) 12 plates; 116 references                          Accepted: 27 Jul. 2009
Comparative morphology and species-groups of the oribatid mite genus Scapheremaeus (Acari: Oribatida: Cymbaeremaeidae), with new species from South Australia
MATTHEW J. COLLOFF (Australia)
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Article
Zootaxa 2206: 23-44 (24 Aug. 2009) 5 plates; 56 references                           Accepted: 1 Aug. 2009
Genera of Gymnodamaeidae (Acari: Oribatida: Plateremaeoidea) of Canada, with notes on some nomenclatorial problems
DAVID EVANS WALTER (Canada)
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Article
Zootaxa 2205: 62-68 (21 Aug. 2009) 3 plates; 27 references                           Accepted: 20 Jul. 2009
 Three new species of Phyllocoptinae (Acari: Eriophyidae) from South China
DE-WEI LI, GUO-QUAN WANG & SUI-GAI WEI (P.R. China)
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Article
Zootaxa 2203: 22-30 (19 Aug. 2009) 8 plates; 22 references                           Accepted: 23 Jul. 2009
A new genus and species of larval Erythraeinae (Acari: Prostigmata: Erythraeidae) from Ukraine and the taxonomic state of Zhangiella
ALIREZA SABOORI (Iran), ALEXANDR A. KHAUSTOV (Ukraine), MASOUD HAKIMITABAR (Iran) & HAMIDREZA HAJIQANBAR (Iran)
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Article
Zootaxa 2201: 49-62 (18 Aug. 2009) 7 plates; 20 references                           Accepted: 29 Jul. 2009
Six new eriophyoid mites (Acari: Eriophyoidea) associated with Ficus spp. (Moraceae) from China
GUOQUAN WANG, SUIGAI WEI & DING YANG (China)
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Article
Zootaxa 2198: 27-40 (14 Aug. 2009) 8 plates; 14 references                           Accepted: 22 Jun. 2009
 Two new Palearctic mite species of the family Cunaxidae (Acari: Prostigmata)
STANISLAV KALÚZ (Slovakia)
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Article
Zootaxa 2196: 31-47 (13 Aug. 2009) 8 plates; 28 references                           Accepted: 22 Jul. 2009
Four new species of Rhyncaphytoptus from Tibet Autonomous Region, China (Acari: Eriophyoidea: Diptilomiopidae)
ZI-WEI SONG, XIAO-FENG XUE & XIAO-YUE HONG (P.R. China)
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Article
Zootaxa 2176: 33-47 (5 Aug. 2009) 5 plates; 20 references                            Accepted: 6 Jul. 2009
The tetranychid mites (Acari: Tetranychidae) of Kenya and a redescription of the species Peltanobia erasmusi Meyer (Acari: Tetranychidae) based on males
FAITH J. TOROITICH (South Africa), EDWARD A. UECKERMANN (South Africa), PIETER D. THERON (South Africa) & MARKUS KNAPP (The Netherlands)
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Article
Zootaxa 2173: 55-65 (31 Jul. 2009) 7 plates; 8 references                            Accepted: 8 Jul. 2009
Three new water mite species (Acari: Hydrachnidia) from Golestan Province (NE Iran)
VLADIMIR PESIC (Montenegro), ISA JABALEH (Iran), ALIREZA SABOORI (Iran), ALIREZA ASKARIANZADEH (Iran) & MAHDIEH ASADI (Iran)
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Article
Zootaxa 2161: 1-19 (17 Jul. 2009) 13 plates; 12 references                            Accepted: 19 Jun. 2009
New mite species of the genus Cunaxa (Acari: Prostigmata: Cunaxidae) from the Crimea, Ukraine
ALEXEY L. SERGEYENKO (Ukraine)
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Article
Zootaxa 2158: 20-32 (15 Jul. 2009) 6 plates; 21 references                            Accepted: 13 Jun. 2009
New records of water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) from interstitial freshwaters of India, with descriptions of three new species
VLADIMIR PESIC (Serbia and Montenegro) & YENUMULA RANGA REDDY (India)
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Article
Zootaxa 2158: 33-49 (15 Jul. 2009) 3 plates; 84 references                            Accepted: 1 Jun. 2009
Review of the mite genus Gaeolaelaps Evans & Till (Acari: Laelapidae), and description of a new species from North America, G. gillespiei n. sp.
FRÉDÉRIC BEAULIEU (Canada)
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Article
Zootaxa 2158: 50-56 (15 Jul. 2009) 3 plates; 25 references                            Accepted: 24 Jun. 2009
Description of a new species of Anisitsiellidae Koenike, 1910 (Acari, Hydrachnidia), the first record of the family from China
TIANCI YI, DAOCHAO JIN & JIANJUN GUO (China)
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Article
Zootaxa 2153: 35-54 (9 Jul. 2009) 13 plates; 20 references                            Accepted: 3 Jun. 2009
Differentiation between two epilittoral species, Scutovertex arenocolus spec. nov. and Scutovertex pilosetosus Polderman (Acari: Oribatida) from different European coasts
TOBIAS PFINGSTL, SYLVIA SCHÄFFER, ERNST EBERMANN & GUENTHER KRISPER (Austria)
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Article
Zootaxa 2144: 54-64 (29 Jun. 2009) 3 plates; 30 references                            Accepted: 17 Jun. 2009
Review of Austrotritia (Acari: Oribatida: Oribotritiidae), with descriptions of two new species from China
DONG LIU, JUN CHEN & GEXIA QIAO (P.R. China)
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Article
Zootaxa 2141: 20-36 (25 Jun. 2009) 8 plates; 30 references                            Accepted: 28 Apr. 2009
A revision of the genus Pulaeus Den Heyer, with descriptions of a new genus and four new Brazilian species (Acari: Prostigmata: Cunaxidae)
TATIANE MARIE MARTINS GOMES DE CASTRO & JACOB DEN HEYER (Brasil)
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Article
Zootaxa 2140: 1-15 (24 Jun. 2009) 5 plates; 41 references                            Accepted: 30 May 2009
Four new cunaxoidine genera (Acari: Prostigmata: Cunaxidae) and the description of two new Neotropical species
JACOB DEN HEYER (South Africa) & TATIANE M. M. G. de CASTRO (Brazil)
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Article
Zootaxa 2140: 16-26 (24 Jun. 2009) 6 plates; 12 references                            Accepted: 2 Jun. 2009
Eriophyoid mites from Hainan Province, China I: Descriptions of three new species (Acari: Eriophyoidea)
LI-SHENG CHENG, XIAO-FENG XUE & XIAO-YUE HONG (China)
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Article
Zootaxa 2140: 27-32 (24 Jun. 2009) 1 plates; 19 references                            Accepted: 7 May 2009
Descriptions of a new genus Orientilimnesia (Hydrachnidia: Limnesiidae Thor, 1900) with a new species from China
TIANCI YI, DAOCHAO JIN, JIANJUN GUO & XU ZHANG (China)
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Article
Zootaxa 2133: 49-54 (16 Jun. 2009) 2 plates; 20 references                            Accepted: 15 May 2009
A new species and further records of quill mites (Acari: Cheyletoidea: Syringophilidae) parasitic on birds (Aves) in England
BARRY NATTRESS (UK) & MACIEJ SKORACKI (Poland)
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Article
Zootaxa 2124: 38-50 (3 Jun. 2009) 8 plates; 20 references                            Accepted: 12 May 2009
New water mites species of the genus Feltria Koenike (Acariformes, Feltriidae) from the Asian Russia
PETR V. TUZOVSKIJ & KSENIA A. SEMENCHENKO (Russia)
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Article
Zootaxa 2119: 1-22 (27 May 2009) 15 plates; 24 references                          Accepted: 11 May 2009
Studies on water mites (Acari, Hydrachnidia) from the Himalayas, II. New records and descriptions of seven new species from India
VLADIMIR PESIC (Montenegro) & ARNE PANESAR (Germany)
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Article
Zootaxa 2119: 23-38 (27 May 2009) 7 plates; 47 references                          Accepted: 18 Apr. 2009
A new species of Aceria (Acari: Eriophyidae) damaging sowthistles, Sonchus spp. (Asteraceae), in Australia with notes on Aceria sonchi (Nalepa, 1902)
DANUTA K. KNIHINICKI, KATHRYN L. MCCARREN & JOHN K. SCOTT (Australia)
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Article
Zootaxa 2114: 61-68 (22 May 2009) 6 plates; 6 references                          Accepted: 29 Apr. 2009
New Australian hygrobatids (Acari: Hydrachnidia: Hygrobatidae), with the description of two new genera and three new species
HARRY SMIT (The Netherlands)
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Article
Zootaxa 2109: 59-68 (18 May 2009) 5 plates; 15 references                          Accepted: 28 Apr. 2009
A new genus and five new species of Diptilomiopidae (Acari: Eriophyoidea) from south China
SUI-GAI WEI, GUO-QUAN WANG & DE-WEI LI (P.R. China)
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Article
Zootaxa 2107: 53-64 (15 May 2009) 5 plates; 27 references                          Accepted: 4 May 2009
Five new species of the genus Diptilomiopus Nalepa, 1916 from China (Acari: Diptilomiopidae: Diptilomiopinae)
GUO-QUAN WANG, SUI-GAI WEI & DING YANG (China)
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 2107: 65-68 (15 May 2009) 0 plates; 37 references                          Accepted: 18 Apr. 2009
Validity and interpretation of Murcia Koch, Trichoribates Berlese and their type species (Acari: Oribatida: Ceratozetidae)
GERD WEIGMANN (Germany) & ROY A. NORTON (USA)
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Article
Zootaxa 2106: 61-68 (13 May 2009) 4 plates; 35 references                         Accepted: 6 Apr. 2009
Neotype designation for Cunaxa setirostris (Hermann, 1804) (Acari: Prostigmata: Cunaxidae)
JACOB DEN HEYER (South Africa) & ALEXEY L. SERGEYENKO (Ukraine)
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Monograph
Zootaxa 2098: 1-185 (11 May 2009) 39 plates; 372 references                          Accepted: 1 Apr. 2009
 A catalog of the Tenuipalpidae (Acari) of the World with a key to genera
NORA C. MESA (Colombia), RONALD OCHOA (USA), W. CALVIN WELBOURN (USA), GREGORY A. EVANS (USA) & GILBERTO J. DE MORAES (Brazil)
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Article
Zootaxa 2088: 51-64 (1 May 2009) 4 plates; 24 references                          Accepted: 11 Apr. 2009
Vulgarogamasus sphecophilus (Cooreman) comb. nov. (Acari: Mesostigmata: Parasitidae): a redescription and new hymenopteran association
ANNE S. BAKER (UK) & KEVIN R. FOSTER (USA)
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Article
Zootaxa 2081: 1-30 (24 Apr. 2009) 11 plates; 51 references                          Accepted: 12 Mar. 2009
Species-group concepts and biogeography of the genus Crotonia (Acari: Oribatida: Crotoniidae), with new species from South and Central America
MATTHEW J. COLLOFF (Australia)
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Zootaxa 2073: 31-44 (16 Apr. 2009) 13 plates; 6 references                           Accepted: 23 Feb. 2009
A new flat mite genus, Acaricis (Prostigmata: Tenuipalpidae), from Australian sedges (Cyperaceae)
J. J. BEARD (Australia) & U. GERSON (Israel)
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Article
Zootaxa 2070: 53-62 (14 Apr. 2009) 6 plates; 16 references                           Accepted: 12 Mar. 2009
New records of water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) from Tasmania, with descriptions of three new species
VLADIMIR PESIC (Serbia and Montenegro) & HARRY SMIT (The Netherlands)
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Article
Zootaxa 2070: 63-68 (14 Apr. 2009) 0 plates; 34 references                           Accepted: 26 Mar. 2009
Systematic remarks on eriophyoid mites from the subfamily Phytoptinae Murray, 1877 (Acari: Eriophyoidea: Phytoptidae)
PHILIPP E. CHETVERIKOV (Russia), RADMILA U. PETANOVIĆ (Serbia and Montenegro), SOGDIANA I. SUKHAREVA (Russia)
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Article
Zootaxa 2067: 62-68 (8 Apr. 2009) 2 plates; 11 references                           Accepted: 25 Mar. 2009
 Two new species of eriophyid mites (Acari: Eriophyidae) from India
PRATIBHA MENON, SUSHILA JOSHI & V.V. RAMAMURTHY (India)
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Article
Zootaxa 2061: 23-44 (3 Apr. 2009) 13 plates; 14 references                           Accepted: 7 Mar. 2009
New species of New World Opilioacaridae (Acari: Parasitiformes) with the description of a new genus from the Caribbean region
MA. MAGDALENA VÁZQUEZ (Mexico) & HANS KLOMPEN (USA)
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Article
Zootaxa 2061: 45-60 (3 Apr. 2009) 0 plates; 133 references                           Accepted: 5 Feb. 2009
Plant inhabiting mites (Acari) from the Cerrado biome of Mato Grosso State, Brazil
PETERSON R. DEMITE, REINALDO J.F. FERES , ANTONIO C. LOFEGO & ANIBAL R. OLIVEIRA (Brasil)
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Article
Zootaxa 2051: 49-61 (25 Mar. 2009) 4 plates; 23 references                           Accepted: 2 Mar. 2009
Review of Apoplophora (Acari: Oribatida: Mesoplophoridae), with the description of a new species from China
DONG LIU, JUN CHEN & GEXIA QIAO (China)
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Article
Zootaxa 2050: 31-55 (23 Mar. 2009) 18 plates; 24 references                       Accepted: 25 Feb. 2009
The genus Hyalomma Koch, 1844. VIII. Redescription of three Hyalommina Schulze, 1919 species (Acari: Ixodidae) from South Asia with notes on their biology
DMITRY A. APANASKEVICH (USA), IVAN G. HORAK (South Africa), & GEEVARGHESE GEEVARGHESE (India)
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Zootaxa 2027: 43-54 (4 Mar. 2009) 5 plates; 33 references                           Accepted: 21 Jan. 2009
New species of Crotonia (Acari: Oribatida) from Tasmania Rainforest, and the habitat preferences of Crotoniidae
MATTHEW J. COLLOFF (Australia)
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Article
Zootaxa 2025: 43-55 (2 Mar. 2009) 5 plates; 15 references                           Accepted: 14 Jan. 2009
Two new species of Myrmozercon (Acari: Laelapidae) from Australian ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
MATTHEW D. SHAW & OWEN D. SEEMAN (Australia)
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Article
Zootaxa 2024: 1-32 (2 Mar. 2009) 9 plates; 78 references                           Accepted: 3 Feb. 2009
Edaphic ascid mites (Acari: Mesostigmata: Ascidae) from the state of São Paulo, Brazil, with description of five new species
JEFERSON L. DE C. MINEIRO (Brasil), EVERT E. LINDQUIST (Canada) & GILBERTO J. DE MORAES (Brasil)
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Article
Zootaxa 2019: 29-39 (23 Feb. 2009) 3 plates; 27 references                           Accepted: 24 Jan. 2009
Three new species of mites (Acari: Zerconidae) from canopy habitats in Irish forests
MARÍA LOURDES MORAZA (Spain), JULIO ARROYO (Ireland) & THOMAS BOLGER (Ireland)
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Article
Zootaxa 2015: 55-61 (18 Feb. 2009) 3 plates; 11 references                           Accepted: 22 Jan. 2009
Three new species and a new name in Diptilomiopinae from China (Acari: Diptilomiopidae)
GUO-QUAN WANG, SUI-GAI WEI & DING YANG (China)
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Article
Zootaxa 2013: 43-57 (16 Feb. 2009) 5 plates; 36 references                           Accepted: 14 Jan. 2009
 Three new genera of the mite family Eviphididae (Acari: Mesostigmata)
PETER MAŠÁN (Slovakia) & BRUCE HALLIDAY (Australia)
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Article
Zootaxa 2012: 1-27 (16 Feb. 2009) 9 plates; 24 references                           Accepted: 24 Dec. 2008
Water mites of the family Torrenticolidae (Acari: Hydrachnidia) from Thailand, Part II. The genus Monatractides K.Viets
VLADIMIR PESIC (Serbia and Montenegro) & HARRY SMIT (The Netherlands)
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Article
Zootaxa 2007: 58-68 (11 Feb. 2009) 4 plates; 18 references                           Accepted: 14 Jan. 2009
A new species of Ophionyssus Mégnin (Acari: Mesostigmata: Macronyssidae) parasitic on Lacerta schreiberi Bedriaga (Reptilia: Lacertidae) from the Iberian Peninsula, and a world key to species
MARÍA L. MORAZA (Spain), NANCY R. IRWIN (UK), RAQUEL GODINHO (France), STUART J. E. BAIRD (Portugal) & JOËLLE GOÜY DE BELLOCQ (Belgium)
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Monograph
Zootaxa 1998: 1-170 (4 Feb. 2009) 2 plates; 537 references                           Accepted: 11 Nov. 2008
Checklist of marine and freshwater halacarid mite genera and species (Halacaridae: Acari) with notes on synonyms, habitats, distribution and descriptions of the taxa
ILSE BARTSCH (Germany)
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 1992: 68 (2 Feb. 2009) 0 plates; 5 references                                 Accepted: 15 Dec. 2008
 Neovochthonius nom. nov. pro Neochthonius Karppinen (Acari, Oribatei, Protoplophoroidea, Heterochthoniidae)
MARK L. I. JUDSON (France)
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Article
Zootaxa 1992: 1-19 (2 Feb. 2009) 10 plates; 40 references                           Accepted: 19 Dec. 2008
One new genus and five new species of Rhyncaphytoptinae from China (Acari: Eriophyoidea: Diptilomiopidae)
XIAO-FENG XUE, ZI-WEI SONG & XIAO-YUE HONG (China)
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Article
Zootaxa 1988: 33-47 (27 Jan. 2009) 14 plates; 31 references                           Accepted: 8 Dec. 2008
 Three new species of Oppiidae from Turkey (Acari: Oribatida)
AYŞE TOLUK & NUSRET AYYILDIZ (Turkey)
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Article
Zootaxa 1986: 1-50 (23 Jan. 2009) 29 plates; 42 references                           Accepted: 1 Dec. 2008
Eriophyoid mites (Acari: Eriophyoidea) of Taiwan: thirty-seven species from Yangmingshan, including one new genus and twenty-two new species
KUN-WEI HUANG & CHIN-FAH WANG (R. China)
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Article
Zootaxa 1982: 38-62 (19 Jan. 2009) 18 plates; 21 references                           Accepted: 11 Nov. 2008
Water mites of the family Torrenticolidae Piersig, 1902 (Acari: Hydrachnidia) from Thailand, Part I. The genera Torrenticola Piersig, 1896, Neoatractides Lundblad, 1941 and Pseudotorrenticola Walter, 1906
VLADIMIR PESIC (Serbia and Montenegro) & HARRY SMIT (The Netherlands)
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Article
Zootaxa 1973: 28-40 (9 Jan. 2009) 0 plates; 33 references                           Accepted: 14 Nov. 2008
Catalogue of type specimens of invertebrates in the collection of the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, Brazil. IV. Arachnida: Acari, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpiones, Ricinulei and Schizomida
REGIANE SATURNINO, ANA LÚCIA TOURINHO, CLARISSA SALETTE DE AZEVEDO & CÉLIO MAGALHÃES (Brazil)
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Article
Zootaxa 1962: 1-32 (12 Dec. 2008) 12 plates; 36 references                        Accepted: 3 Dec. 2008
New Zealand Eriophyoidea (Acari: Prostigmata): an update with descriptions of one new genus and six new species
XIAO-FENG XUE (China) & ZHI-QIANG ZHANG (New Zealand)
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 1962: 65-68 (12 Dec. 2008) 2 plates; 4 references                        Accepted: 7 Nov. 2008
A new species of feather mite: Timalinyssus Mironov, 2001 (Astigmata: Pteronyssidae) from Garrulax canorus canorus (Linnaeus) (Passeriformes: Timaliidae) in China
WANG ZI-YING, WANG JIN-JUN (China)
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Article
Zootaxa 1961: 37-57 (10 Dec. 2008) 7 plates; 15 references                      Accepted: 17 Nov. 2008
Phase morphs and phoresy: New species of Antennoseius (Vitzthumia) mites (Acari: Mesostigmata: Ascidae) associated with pyrophilous carabids (Carabidae: Sericoda spp.) in Alberta, Canada
FRÉDÉRIC BEAULIEU, ANDREA D. DÉCHÊNE & DAVID E. WALTER (Canada)
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Article
Zootaxa 1961: 58-68 (10 Dec. 2008) 5 plates; 13 references                       Accepted: 13 Nov. 2008
Four new species of the quill mite genus Picobia Heller, 1880 (Acari: Syringophilidae) parasitizing birds in the Australian Region
MACIEJ SKORACKI, ELIZA GLOWSKA & BOZENA SIKORA (Poland)
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Monograph
Zootaxa 1954: 1-120 (5 Dec. 2008) 46 plates; 43 references                        Accepted: 7 Oct. 2008
Taxonomical, ecological and zoogeographical studies on anisitsiellid water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia: Anisitsiellidae Koenike, 1910) from Madagascar
 TOM GOLDSCHMIDT (Germany)
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Monograph
Zootaxa 1951: 1-152 (5 Dec. 2008) 85 plates; 59 references                        Accepted: 1 Oct. 2008
Phylogeny and systematics of the endoparasitic astigmatid mites (Acari: Sarcoptiformes) of mammals: families Gastronyssidae, Lemurnyssidae, and Pneumocoptidae
 ANDRE V. BOCHKOV (Russia), SVETLANA ZABLUDOVSKAYA (Ukraine) & BARRY M. OCONNOR (USA)
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Article
Zootaxa 1948: 1-35 (3 Dec. 2008) 17 plates; 97 references                           Accepted: 7 Nov. 2008
Trichoribates and Jugatala (Acari: Oribatida: Ceratozetidae) from the Central and Southern Alps, with notes on their distribution
Badamdorj Bayartogtokh (Mangolia) & HEINRICH SCHATZ (Austria)
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Article
Zootaxa 1947: 1-38 (1 Dec. 2008) 21 plates; 41 references                           Accepted: 18 Sept. 2008
New feather mites of the subfamily Pterodectinae (Acari: Astigmata: Proctophyllodidae) from passerines (Aves: Passeriformes) in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
 SERGEY V. MIRONOV (Russia), IVAN LITERAK (Czech Rep.) & MIROSLAV ČAPEK (Czech Rep.)
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Article
Zootaxa 1925: 21-30 (7 Nov. 2008) 4 plates; 16 references                           Accepted: 7 Oct. 2008
A new genus of Neothrombiidae (Acari: Trombidioidea) from Yemen
 ALIREZA SABOORI (Iran), EDWARD A. UECKERMANN(South Africa) & Antonius van Harten (Cape Verde)
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 1914: 65-68 (24 Oct. 2008) 4 plates; 6 references                       Accepted: 8 Oct. 2008
A new species of Linotetranus (Acari : Prostigmata: Linotetranidae) from Iran
 MOHAMMAD BAGHERI, KARIM HADDAD IRANI-NEJAD, KARIM KAMALI, MOHAMMAD KHANJANI, ALIREZA SABOORI & PARISA LOTFOLLAHI (Iran)
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Zootaxa 1909: 16-26 (20 Oct. 2008) 3 plates; 40 references                          Accepted: 16 Sept. 2008
Three new species of Phytoseius Ribaga (Acari: Phytoseiidae), and a new record from Brazil
PETERSON R. DEMITE, ANTONIO C. LOFEGO & REINALDO J.F. FERES (Brazil)
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Monograph
Zootaxa 1904: 1-166 (15 Oct. 2008) 0 plates; 406 references                          Accepted: 16 Jun. 2008
Metazoan parasites of Mexican amphibians and reptiles
 RICARDO PAREDES-LEóN, LUIS GARCíA-PRIETO, CARMEN GUZMáN-CORNEJO, VIRGINIA LEóN-RèGAGNON & TILA M. PéREZ (Mexico)
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Monograph
Zootaxa 1901: 1-122 (15 Oct. 2008) 56 plates; 73 references                           Accepted: 5 Aug. 2008
Phytoseiid mites of the tribe Typhlodromini (Acari: Phytoseiidae) from sub-Saharan Africa
EDWARD A. UECKERMANN (S. Africa), IGNACE D. ZANNOU (Brazil), GILBERTO J. DE MORAES (Brazil), ANIBAL R. OLIVEIRA (Brazil), RACHID HANNA (Benin) & JOHN S. YANINEK (USA)
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Article
Zootaxa 1897: 1-19 (10 Oct. 2008) 6 plates; 52 references                            Accepted: 29 Jul. 2008
New edaphic mites of the genus Veigaia from Slovakia and Bulgaria, with a key to the European species (Acari, Mesostigmata, Veigaiidae)
 PETER MASAN, PETER FENDA & UVAN MIHAL (Slovakia)
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Article
Zootaxa 1894: 42-52 (8 Oct. 2008) 5 plates;  13 references                            Accepted: 29 Sept. 2008
One new genus and four new species of Phyllocoptinae (Acari: Eriophyoidea) from Fujian Province, southeastern China
ZI-WEI SONG, XIAO-FENG XUE & XIAO-YUE HONG (China)
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Article
Zootaxa 1894: 53-58 (8 Oct. 2008) 2 plates;  14 references                            Accepted: 16 Sept. 2008
New records of the water mite genus Arrenurus from India, with the description of one new species (Acari: Hydrachnidia: Arrenuridae)
HARRY SMIT (The Netherlands) & VLADIMIR PESIC (Montenegro)
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Article
Zootaxa 1893: 38-48 (6 Oct. 2008) 4 plates; 29 references                           Accepted: 29 Sept. 2008
Four new eriophyoid mite species in the tribe Anthocoptini (Acari: Eriophyidae: Phyllocoptinae) from China
ZHEN WANG & XIAO-YUE HONG (China)
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Article
Zootaxa 1884: 1-35 (24 Sept. 2008) 1 plate; 151 references                           Accepted: 13 Aug. 2008
Phytoseiid mites (Acari: Phytoseiidae) from Argentina, with description of a new species
ALBERTO DANIEL GUANILO (Brazil), GILBERTO JOSÉ DE MORAES (Brazil), SILVANA TOLEDO (Argentina) & MARKUS KNAPP (The Netherlands)
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Article
Zootaxa 1881: 1-42 (22 Sept. 2008) 20 plates; 113 references                         Accepted: 21 Jul. 2008
Review of the genus Cilliba von Heyden (Acari: Uropodina: Cillibidae)
 MARCIN STACHOWIAK (Poland), BRUCE HALLIDAY (Australia) & JERZY BLOSZYK (Poland)
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Article
Zootaxa 1880: 1-47 (19 Sept. 2008) 8 plates; 108 references                          Accepted: 13 Aug. 2008
Phytoseiid mites (Acari: Phytoseiidae) of the subfamily Amblyseiinae Muma from Peru, with descriptions of four new species
 ALBERTO DANIEL GUANILO (Brazil), GILBERTO JOSÉ DE MORAES (Brazil) & MARKUS KNAPP (The Netherlands)
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Article
Zootaxa 1880: 48-68 (19 Sept. 2008) 5 plates; 52 references                          Accepted: 28 Aug. 2008
The family Epicriidae in Slovakia: annotated faunal synopsis and description of a new species of Epicrius (Acari, Mesostigmata, Epicriidae)
 PETER MAŠÁN (Slovakia)
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Article
Zootaxa 1875: 32-38 (12 Sept. 2008) 7 plates; 9 references                           Accepted: 21 Aug. 2008
A new chigger mite (Acari: Prostigmata: Trombiculidae) from Central Europe
 Stanislav KALÚZ (Slovakia)
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Article
Zootaxa 1873: 39-49 (10 Sept. 2008) 4 plates; 30 references                         Accepted: 26 Aug. 2008
Combined approach using morphology and ITS-sequences for description of three new species of Macrocheles (Acari: Macrochelidae)
 JEROME NIOGRET (USA) & ANTOINE NICOT (France)
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Erratum
Zootaxa 1856: 68 (25 Aug. 2008)  
Erratum ( Pfingstl, T. et al. (2008) Intraspecific morphological variation of Scutovertex sculptus Michael (Acari: Oribatida: Scutoverticidae) and description of its juvenile stages. Zootaxa, 1829, 31-51.)
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Article
Zootaxa 1856: 55-66 (25 Aug. 2008) 5 plates; 22 references                          Accepted: 5 Aug. 2008
Trigonuropoda (Baloghiatrigon) dominicana sp. nov. from the Dominican Republic, with notes on the subgenus Baloghiatrigon Hirschmann, 1979 (Acari: Uropodina: Trigonuropodidae)
JENO KONTSCHAN (HUNGARY)
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Article
Zootaxa 1853: 18-30 (20 Aug. 2008) 6 plates; 12 references                           Accepted: 31 Jul. 2008
Four new species of Rotundabaloghia Hirschmann, 1975 from East Africa (Acari: Uropodidae)
JENO KONTSCHAN (Hungary)
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Article
Zootaxa 1852: 50-58 (18 Aug. 2008) 4 plates; 15 references                           Accepted: 23 Jul. 2008
A new genus and species of Trombidiidae (Acari: Trombidioidea) described from larvae ectoparasitic on Cicadatra ochreata Melichar (Homoptera: Cicadidae) from Iran
ALIREZA SABOORI & HOSSEIN LAZARBONI (Iran)
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Article
Zootaxa 1852: 1-20 (18 Aug. 2008) 9 plates; 26 references                            Accepted: 23 Jul. 2008
A new genus and three new species of Eviphididae (Acari: Mesostigmata) associated with scarab beetles in Iran
SHAHROOZ KAZEMI (Iran), MARQA L. MORAZA (Spain), KARIM KAMALI (Iran) & ALIREZA SABOORI (Iran)
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Erratum
Zootaxa 1849: 68 (13 Aug. 2008)  
Erratum ( WOJCIECH NIEDBALA (2008) New species of ptyctimous mites (Acari, Oribatida) from Borneo and Sumatra. Zootaxa, 1786, 1-18.)
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Article
Zootaxa 1847: 34-48 (11 Aug. 2008) 1 plates; 21 references                           Accepted: 11 Jul. 2008
Zygoribatula colemani sp. nov (Acari, Oribatida, Oribatulidae) from Granite Outcrops in Georgia, USA, with a highly variable translamella
ELIZABETH FRANKLIN (Brasil), ROY. A. NORTON (USA) & D. A. CROSSLEY, JR. (USA)
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Article
Zootaxa 1844: 55-62 (6 Aug. 2008) 5 plates; 10 references                              Accepted: 30 Jun. 2008
Taxonomy of European Damaeidae (Acari: Oribatida) II. Porobelba weigmanni n. sp. (Oribatida, Damaeidae), from East Slovakia, with comments on other known species of the genus
LADISLAV MIKO (Belgium)
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Article
Zootaxa 1844: 25-36 (6 Aug. 2008) 8 plates; 15 references                              Accepted: 4 Jul. 2008
Three new species of Austrocarabodes (Oribatida: Carabodidae) from South Africa
ELIZABETH A. HUGO (South Africa)
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Article
Zootaxa 1843: 35-46 (6 Aug. 2008) 6 plates; 34 references                              Accepted: 16 Jun. 2008
A new Neotropical genus of the family Cunaxidae (Acari: Prostigmata: Bdelloidea)
JACOB DEN HEYER & TATIANE MARIE MARTINS GOMES DE CASTRO (Brazil)
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Monograph
Zootaxa 1831: 1-530 (30 Jul. 2008) 2 plates; 4557 references                        Accepted: 12 Feb. 2008
Arthropods of Hispaniola (Dominican Republic and Haiti): A checklist and bibliography
DANIEL E. PEREZ-GELABERT (USA)
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Article
Zootaxa 1829: 1-30 (25 Jul. 2008) 26 plates; 43 references                            Accepted: 24 Jun. 2008
Aceria (Acarina: Eriophyoidea) in Taiwan: five new species and plant abnormalities caused by sixteen species
KUN-WEI HUANG (R. China)
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Article
Zootaxa 1829: 31-51 (25 Jul. 2008) 15 plates; 21 references                              Accepted: 2 Jul. 2008
Intraspecific morphological variation of Scutovertex sculptus Michael (Acari: Oribatida: Scutoverticidae) and description of its juvenile stages
Tobias Pfingstl, Sylvia Schaffer, Ernst Ebermann & Gunther Krisper (Austria)
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Article
Zootaxa 1824: 17-27 (16 Jul. 2008) 3 plates; 28 references                              Accepted: 16 Jun. 2008
A new species of Weiseronyssus Samsinak 1962 (Acari: Mesostigmata: Diplogyniidae) from Iran, with a key for genera
SHAHROOZ KAZEMI (Iran), HANS KLOMPEN (USA), MARIA L. MORAZA (Spain), KARIM KAMALI (Iran) & ALIREZA SABOORI (Iran)
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Zootaxa 1820: 41-48 (9 Jul. 2008) 3 plates; 20 references                              Accepted: 16 Jun. 2008
Confocal microscopy applied to water mite taxonomy with the description of a new genus of Axonopsinae (Acari, Parasitengona, Hydrachnidia) from Central America
ANTONIO G. VALDECASAS (Spain)
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Article
Zootaxa 1820: 1-26 (9 Jul. 2008) 12 plates; 91 references                              Accepted: 4 Apr. 2008
Taxonomy of European Damaeidae (Acari: Oribatida) I. Kunstidamaeus Miko, 2006, with comments on Damaeus sensu lato
Ladislav Miko (Belgium) & Jan Mourek (Czech Republic)
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Zootaxa 1809: 49-60 (25 Jun. 2008) 4 plates; 41 references                              Accepted: 8 May 2008
Descriptions of two Copidognathus halacarid mites (Acari, Halacaridae) from Zanzibar, Tanzania
TAPAS CHATTERJEE (India), MARLEEN DE TROCH (Belgium) & BENNY K. K. CHAN (R. China)
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Zootaxa 1788: 57-65 (9 Jun. 2008) 10 plates; 11 references                              Accepted: 7 May 2008
A new genus and species of mites of the family Caraboacaridae (Acari: Heterostigmata) associated with carabid beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) from Iran
HAMIDREZA HAJIQANBAR (Iran), ALEXANDER KHAUSTOV (Ukraine), KARIM KAMALI (Iran), ALIREZA SABOORI (Iran) & HASHEM KAMALI (Iran)
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Zootaxa 1786: 1-18 (9 Jun. 2008) 9 plates; 25 references                              Accepted: 29 Apr. 2008
New species of ptyctimous mites (Acari, Oribatida) from Borneo and Sumatra
WOJCIECH NIEDBALA (Poland)
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Zootaxa 1771: 54-62 (19 May 2008) 4 plates; 22 references                              Accepted: 18 Apr. 2008
A new genus, with a new species, from Brazil (Acari: Prostigmata: Cunaxidae)
TATIANE MARIE MARTINS GOMES DE CASTRO & JACOB DEN HEYER (Brazil)
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 1770: 65-68 (16 May 2008) 1 plates; 9 references                              Accepted: 15 Apr. 2008
A new species of Paraseiulus Muma from Iran with a key to the known species (Acari: Mesostigmata: Phytoseiidae)
FARID FARAJI (The Netherlands), MAHDI JALAEIAN (Iran) & JAMES A. MCMURTRY (USA)
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Article
Zootaxa 1768: 52-60 (14 May 2008) 3 plates; 11 references                              Accepted: 20 Mar. 2008
False spider mites of the genus Pentamerismus McGregor (Acari: Tenuipalpidae) from Iran
MOHAMMAD KHANJANI (Iran) & TETSUO GOTOH (Japan)
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Monograph
Zootaxa 1765: 1-75 (7 May 2008) 49 plates; 96 references                              Accepted: 26 Feb. 2008
Morphological characteristics of water mite larvae of the genus Arrenurus Duges, 1834, with notes on the phylogeny of the genus and an identification key
ANDRZEJ ZAWAL (Poland)
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Article
Zootaxa 1758: 1-28 (28 Apr. 2008) 19 plates; 10 references                              Accepted: 8 Apr. 2008
Studies on water mites (Acari, Hydrachnidia) from the Himalayas, I. The water mite genus Feltria Koenike, with descriptions of eight new species
VLADIMIR PESIC (Serbia) & ARNE PANESAR (Germany)
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Article
Zootaxa 1756: 1-48 (24 Apr. 2008) 13 plates; 83 references                              Accepted: 26 Mar. 2008
Eriophyoid mite fauna (Acari: Eriophyoidea) of Gansu Province, northwestern China with descriptions of twelve new species
ZI-WEI SONG, XIAO-FENG XUE & XIAO-YUE HONG (P.R. China)
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Article
Zootaxa 1756: 62-68 (24 Apr. 2008) 3 plates; 7 references                              Accepted: 14 Mar. 2008
A new species of the genus Parawenhoekia (Acari: Chyzeriidae) from Montenegro
ALIREZA SABOORI (Iran), Vladimir Pesic (Montenegro) & Masoud Hakimitabar (Iran)
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Article
Zootaxa 1750: 53-58 (16 Apr. 2008) 2 plates; 7 references                              Accepted: 9 Jan. 2008
A new species of Heteroparasitus Juvara-Bals 1975 from Karavanke, Austria (Acari: Parasitidae)
WOJCIECH WITALINSKI (Poland)
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Article
Zootaxa 1731: 42-50 (25 Mar. 2008) 4 plates; 18 references                           Accepted: 15 Feb. 2008
A new cunaxid genus with descriptions of two new species from Brazil (Acari: Prostigmata: Bdelloidea: Cunaxidae)
JACOB DEN HEYER & TATIANE MARIE MARTINS GOMES DE CASTRO (Brazil)
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Article
Zootaxa 1731: 51-62 (25 Mar. 2008) 8 plates; 29 references                          Accepted: 14 Feb. 2008
Subfamilial affiliation of Neoscirula (Acari: Prostigmata: Cunaxidae) and descriptions of three new species of this genus from Brazil
JACOB DEN HEYER & TATIANE MARIE MARTINS GOMES DE CASTRO (Brazil)
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Article
Zootaxa 1729: 49-60 (20 Mar. 2008) 2 plates; 50 references                           Accepted: 18 Feb. 2008
Phytoseiid mites (Acari: Phytoseiidae) of the subfamilies Phytoseiinae Berlese and Typhlodrominae Wainstein from Peru, with descriptions of two new species
ALBERTO DANIEL GUANILO (BRAZIL), GILBERTO JOSE DE MORAES (BRAZIL) & MARKUS KNAPP (KENYA)
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Article
Zootaxa 1726: 18-32 (12 Mar. 2008) 2 plates; 55 references                           Accepted: 5 Feb. 2008
Genetic Relationship between the Carmine Spider Mite Tetranychus cinnabarinus (Boisduval) and the Two-spotted Mite T. urticae Koch in China Based on the mtDNA COI and rDNA ITS2 Sequences
LIN XIE, RONG-RONG XIE, KAI-JUN ZHANG & XIAO-YUE HONG (P.R. China)
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Article
Zootaxa 1721: 35-52 (7 Mar. 2008) 8 plates; 28 references                              Accepted: 5 Feb. 2008
Eight new species of the genus Aculus Keifer (Acari: Eriophyidae) from China
XIAO-FENG XUE, ZI-WEI SONG & XIAO-YUE HONG (P.R. China)
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Article
Zootaxa 1719: 41-52 (5 Mar. 2008) 7 plates; 29 references                              Accepted: 25 Jan. 2008
Glaucalges tytonis sp. n. (Analgoidea, Xolalgidae) from the barn owl Tyto alba (Strigiformes, Tytonidae): compiling morphology with DNA barcode data for taxon descriptions in mites (Acari)
JACEK DABERT (Poland), RAINER EHRNSBERGER (Germany) & MIROSLAWA DABERT (Poland)
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 1717: 68 (3 Mar. 2008) 0 plates; 9 references                              Accepted: 4 Feb. 2007
Apocaligonellidus nom. nov. for Echinopsis Fan & Chen, 1996, preoccupied (Acari: Prostigmata: Raphignathoidea: Xenocaligonellididae)
Q.-H. FAN & Y. CHEN (P.R. China)
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Article
Zootaxa 1698: 41-48 (5 Feb. 2008) 4 plates; 22 references                              Accepted: 20 Dec. 2007
Two new species of eriophyoid mites (Acari: Eriophyoidea) associated with Elaeagnaceae in Turkey
EVSEL DENIZHAN (Turkey), ROSITA MONFREDA (Italy), ENRICO DE LILLO (Italy) & SULTAN COBANOGLU (Turkey)
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Article
Zootaxa 1693: 62-68 (31 Jan. 2008) 2 plates; 13 references                              Accepted: 6 Dec. 2007
Revision of the genus Rutacarus (Acari, Parasitengona, Hydrachnidia) with the description of a new species from Central America
ANTONIO G. VALDECASAS (Spain)
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Article
Zootaxa 1687: 1-34 (23 Jan. 2008) 19 plates; 33 references                              Accepted: 7 Dec. 2007
Phytoseiid mites of the tribe Paraseiulini Wainstein (Acari: Phytoseiidae) from sub-Saharan Africa
 GILBERTO J. DE MORAES (Brazil), IGNACE D. ZANNOU (Brazil), EDDIE A. UECKERMANN (S. Africa), ANIBAL R. OLIVEIRA (Brazil), RACHID HANNA (Benin) & JOHN S. YANINEK (USA)
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Article
Zootaxa 1685: 1-37 (21 Jan. 2008) 18 plates; 35 references                              Accepted: 14 Dec. 2007
A new genus of flower-dwelling melicharid mites (Acari: Mesostigmata: Ascoidea) phoretic on bats and insects in Costa Rica and Brazil
EVERT E. LINDQUIST (Canada) & MARIA L. MORAZA (Spain)
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Article
Zootaxa 1685: 38-46 (21 Jan. 2008) 3 plates; 4 references                              Accepted: 19 Nov. 2007
Stygomomonia (S.) manchurica, a new species of water mite (Acari: Hydrachnidia: Momoniidae) from the Far East of Russia
KSENIA A. SEMENCHENKO (Russia)
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Article
Zootaxa 1674: 1-26 (7 Jan. 2008) 11 plates; 19 references                              Accepted: 26 Oct. 2007
Australian Unionicola (Acari: Hydrachnidia: Unionicolidae), with the description of two new subgenera and eight new species
HARRY SMIT (The Netherlands)
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2007 (56 articles; 5 correspondence) 7 papers  open access 

Article
Zootaxa 1668: 363-380 (21 Dec. 2007) 3 plates;  69 references                      Accepted: 13 Nov. 2007
The smaller arachnid orders: diversity, descriptions and distributions from Linnaeus to the present (1758 to 2007)
MARK S. HARVEY (Australia)
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Article
 Zootaxa 1665: 1-17 (19 Dec. 2007)  9 plates; 32 references                            Accepted: 17 Nov. 2007
Mixturopoda Baker and Monson, a new genus of the uropodine family Metagynuridae (Acari: Mesostigmata) from the British Isles
ANNE S. BAKER & FRANK D. MONSON (UK)
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Article
 Zootaxa 1662: 35-43 (17 Dec. 2007)  2 plates; 30 references                            Accepted: 7 Nov. 2007
Detection, extraction, and collection of eriophyoid mites
ROSITA Monfreda, GIORGIO Nuzzaci & ENRICO de Lillo (Italy)
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Article
 Zootaxa 1658: 1-20 (11 Dec. 2007)  10 plates; 40 references                            Accepted: 11 Nov. 2007
Phytoseiid mites of the subfamily Phytoseiinae (Acari: Phytoseiidae) from sub-Saharan Africa
EDDIE A. UECKERMANN (South Africa), IGNACE D. ZANNOU (Brazil), GILBERTO J. DE MORAES (Brazil), ANIBAL R. OLIVEIRA (Brazil), RACHID HANNA (West Africa) & JOHN S. YANINEK (USA)
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Article
 Zootaxa 1646: 1-15 (26 Nov. 2007)  12 plates; 10 references                            Accepted: 1 Nov. 2007
Four new species of Xenotarsonemus (Acari: Tarsonemidae) from Brazil
ANTONIO C. LOFEGO (Brazil), GILBERTO J. DE MORAES (Brazil) & RONALD OCHOA (USA)
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Article
 Zootaxa 1646: 51-58 (26 Nov. 2007)  4 plates; 27 references                            Accepted: 30 Oct. 2007
Five species of spider mites (Acari: Prostigmata: Tetranychidae) from Japan with descriptions of two new species
SHOZO EHARA & TETSUO GOTOH (Japan)
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Article
 Zootaxa 1635: 63-68 (12 Nov. 2007)  2 plates; 19 references                            Accepted: 8 Oct. 2007
A new species and new records of syringophilid mites (Acari: Prostigmata: Syringophilidae) from birds of Jordan
ELIZA GLOWSKA (Poland), MACIEJ SKORACKI (Poland) & FARES KHOURLY (Jordan)
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Article
 Zootaxa 1628: 1-22 (2 Nov. 2007)  5 plates; 63 references                            Accepted: 17 Sep. 2007
Phytoseiid mites of the tribes Afroseiulini, Kampimodromini and Phytoseiulini, and complementary notes on mites of the tribes Euseiini and Neoseiulini (Acari: Phytoseiidae) from sub-Saharan Africa
GILBERTO J. DE MORAES (Brazil), IGNACE D. ZANNOU (Brazil), EDDIE A. UECKERMANN (South Africa), ANIBAL R. OLIVEIRA (Brazil), JOHN S. YANINEK (USA) & RACHID HANNA (West Africa)
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 1621: 65-67 (23 Oct. 2007)  0 plates; 20 references                            Accepted: 20 Sep. 2007
Nomenclatural notes on the names Gaeolaelaps and Geolaelaps (Acari: Laelapidae)
R. B. HALLIDAY (Australia) & E. E. LINDQUIST (Canada)
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Article
 Zootaxa 1614: 1-16 (15 Oct. 2007)  6 plates; 21 references                            Accepted: 5 Sep. 2007
Six new species of Tetra Keifer (Acari: Eriophyidae: Phyllocoptinae) from China
XIAO-FENG XUE, ZI-WEI SONG & XIAO-YUE HONG (P.R. China)
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Article
 Zootaxa 1613: 45-56 (12 Oct. 2007)  8 plates; 17 references                            Accepted: 12 Sep. 2007
First records of water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) from Bhutan, with description of two new species
VLADIMIR PESIC (Serbia) & HARRY SMIT (The Netherlands)
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Article
 Zootaxa 1591: 39-66 (21 Sep. 2007)  15 plates; 14 references                         Accepted: 15 Aug. 2007
The Dyobelba tectopediosa species-group (Acari: Oribatida: Damaeidae) from the Southeastern USA, with a key to world species of Dyobelba and notes on their distribution
Badamdorj Bayartogtokh (Mongolia) & Roy A. Norton (USA)
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Article
 Zootaxa 1587: 53-59 (17 Sep. 2007)  3 plates; 11 references                            Accepted: 14 Aug. 2007
A new genus and three new species of Phyllocoptinae (Acari: Eriophyidae) from South China
DE-WEI LI, GUO-QUAN WANG & SUI-GAI WEI (P.R. China)
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Article
 Zootaxa 1553: 47-58 (20 Aug. 2007) 0 plates; 41 references                            Accepted: 12 Jun. 2007
The Ixodes (Acari: Ixodidae) of Mexico: parasite-host and host-parasite checklists
CARMEN GUZMAN-CORNEJO (Mexico), RICHARD G. ROBBINS (USA) & TILA M. PEREZ (Mexico)
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Article
 Zootaxa 1551: 61-68 (15 Aug. 2007) 8 plates; 14 references                            Accepted: 5 Jul. 2007
Two new species of oppioid mites from Turkey (Acari: Oribatida)
AYSE TOLUK (Turkey), NUSRET AYYILDIZ (Turkey) & LUIS S. SUBIAS (Spain)
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Article
 Zootaxa 1550: 1-47 (15 Aug. 2007) 25 plates; 74 references                            Accepted: 2 Jun. 2007
Phytoseiid mites of the subtribe Amblyseiina (Acari: Phytoseiidae: Amblyseiini) from sub-Saharan Africa
IGNACE D. ZANNOU (Brazil), GILBERTO J. DE MORAES (Brazil), EDDIE A. UECKERMANN (South Africa), ANIBAL R. OLIVEIRA (Brazil), JOHN S. YANINEK (USA) & RACHID HANNA (West Africa)
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Article
 Zootaxa 1545: 17-31 (9 Aug. 2007) 8 plates; 13 references                            Accepted: 16 Mar. 2007
Three new species of Neoscirula (Prostigmata: Cunaxidae) from a Tropical dry forest in Jalisco, Mexico
BLANCA E. MEJIA-RECAMIER & JOSE G. PALACIOS-VARGAS (Mexico)
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Article
 Zootaxa 1532: 1-21 (26 Jul. 2007) 0 plates; 227 references                            Accepted: 25 Jun. 2007
Checklist of the mites (Arachnida: Acari) of Turkey. Second supplement
ORHAN ERMAN, MUHLIS OZKAN, NUSRET AYYILDIZ & SALIH DOGAN (Turkey)
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Article
 Zootaxa 1531: 63-68 (23 Jul. 2007) 4 plates; 4 references                            Accepted: 18 Jun. 2007
A new species of Trombidium (Acari: Trombidiidae) from East Azarbaijan province, Iran
ALIREZA SABOORI & KARIM HADDAD IRANI-NEJAD (Iran)
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Article
 Zootaxa 1525: 19-30 (12 Jul. 2007) 5 plates; 21 references                            Accepted: 8 Jun. 2007
Five new species of the genus Tegolophus Keifer (Acari: Eriophyidae: Phyllocoptinae: Anthocoptini) from China
XIAO-FENG XUE, ZI-WEI SONG & XIAO-YUE HONG (P.R. China)
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Correspondence
 Zootaxa 1523: 65-68 (9 Jul. 2007) 1 plates; 7 references                            Accepted: 2 Jun. 2007
Anomaloppia mazandaranica (Acari: Oribatida: Oppiidae) n. sp. from Iran
MOHAMMAD ALI AKRAMI (Iran) & LUIS S. SUBIAS (Spain)
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Article
 Zootaxa 1520: 57-68 (5 Jul. 2007) 4 plates; 23 references                            Accepted: 1 Jun. 2007
Four new species and a new name in the genus Rhyncaphytoptus Keifer (Acari: Eriophyoidea: Diptilomiopidae) from China
ZI-WEI SONG, XIAO-FENG XUE & XIAO-YUE HONG (P.R. China)
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Article
 Zootaxa 1517: 1-52 (28 Jun. 2007) 34 plates; 14 references                            Accepted: 16 Jun. 2007
Allotanaupodidae, a new family of early derivative Parasitengona (Acari: Prostigmata)
ZHI-QIANG ZHANG (New Zealand)& QING-HAI FAN (P.R. China)
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Article
 Zootaxa 1509: 31-39 (18 Jun. 2007) 4 plates; 8 references                            Accepted: 7 May 2007
Olopachys (Olopachylaella) gronychi subgen. nov., sp. nov., a new species of mite from Bulgaria (Acari: Mesostigmata: Pachylaelapidae)
PETER MASAN (Slovakia)
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Article
Zootaxa 1509: 41-50 (18 Jun. 2007) 3 plates; 7 references                            Accepted: 2 May 2007
Water mite species of the genus Hydrodroma Koch (Acari: Hydrachnidia, Hydrodromidae) from Australia. Part II
VLADIMIR PESIC (Serbia) & HARRY SMIT (The Netherlands)
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Article
Zootaxa 1509: 51-60 (18 Jun. 2007) 4 plates; 39 references                            Accepted: 5 May 2007
Notes on the genus Eotetranychus (Acari: Tetranychidae) in Italy and France with a redescription of Eotetranychus fraxini Reck, new record for Italy and Western Europe
ALAIN MIGEON (France), VALERIA MALAGNINI (Italy), MARIA NAVAJAS(Italy) & CARLO DUSO (Italy)
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Article
Zootaxa 1501: 57-63 (7 Jun. 2007) 8 plates; 15 references                            Accepted: 27 Apr. 2007
A new species of Hexabdella (Acari: Bdellidae) from Brazil
FABIO A. HERNANDES, RODRIGO D. DAUD & REINALDO J.F. FERES (Brazil)
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Article
Zootaxa 1485: 59-68 (28 May 2007) 3 plates; 23 references                            Accepted: 7 May 2007
New mites of the genus Pachyseius Berlese from Bulgaria (Acari: Pachylaelapidae)
PETER MAŠÁN & IVAN MIHÁL (Slovakia)
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Article
Zootaxa 1484: 51-68 (28 May 2007) 6 plates; 32 references                            Accepted: 19 Feb. 2007
Ascid mites (Acari: Mesostigmata: Ascidae) from Costa Rican hummingbirds (Aves: Trochilidae), with description of three new species and a key to the Proctolaelaps belemensis species group
FRANTISEK DUSBABEK (Czech Republic), IVAN LITERAK (Czech Republic), MIROSLAV CAPEK (Czech Republic) & MARTIN HAVLICEK (Australia)
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Article
Zootaxa 1480: 1-55 (24 May 2007) 29 plates; 22 references                            Accepted: 3 Apr. 2007
Revision of the Fedrizziidae (Acari: Mesostigmata: Fedrizzioidea)
OWEN D. SEEMAN (Australia)
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Article
Zootaxa 1473: 45-68 (14 May 2007) 2 plates; 46 references                            Accepted: 4 Apr. 2007
A checklist of the water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) of Iran
VLADIMIR PESIC (Serbia and Montenegro) & ALIREZA SABOORI (Iran)
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Article
Zootaxa 1472: 55-68 (14 May 2007) 5 plates; 32 references                            Accepted: 3 Apr. 2007
Oribatid mites of the family Astegistidae (Acari: Oribatida) in Mongolia
BADAMDORJ BAYARTOGTOKH (Mongalia)
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Article
Zootaxa 1464: 45-63 (3 May 2007) 10 plates; 20 references                             Accepted: 19 Mar. 2007
Taxonomic study on the family Nippobodidae (Acari: Oribatida) from China
JUN CHEN & HUI-FU WANG(P.R. China)
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 1464: 65-68 (3 May 2007) 3 plates; 13 references                             Accepted: 30 Mar. 2007
Zercon rafaljanus sp. nov., a new zerconid mite (Acari: Mesostigmata: Zerconidae) from the United States of America
CZESLAW BLASZAK & IZA LANIECKA (Poland)
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Article
 Zootaxa 1463: 47-54 (30 Apr. 2007) 1 plates; 18 references                             Accepted: 9 Mar. 2007
A new species of the genus Zercon (Acari, Zerconidae) from Turkey
RASIT URHAN (Turkey)
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Article
 Zootaxa 1462: 61-68 (30 Apr. 2007) 3 plates; 9 references                             Accepted: 3 Apr. 2007
A new species of Ologamasus (Acari: Ologamasidae) from Brazil
E.S. SILVA (Brazil), G.J. DE MORAES (Brazil) & G.W. KRANTZ (USA)
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Article
 Zootaxa 1454: 1-26 (23 Apr. 2007) 0 plates; 111 references                             Accepted: 22 Jan. 2007
Checklist of raphignathoid mites (Acari: Raphignathoidea) of Turkey
SALIH DOGAN (Turkey)
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Article
Zootaxa 1448: 41-68 (16 Apr. 2007) 1 plates; 158 references                             Accepted: 23 Feb. 2007
Terrestrial and Freshwater Invertebrate Fauna of the High Arctic Archipelago of Svalbard
STEPHEN JAMES COULSON (Norway)
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Article
Zootaxa 1448: 1-39 (16 Apr. 2007) 22 plates; 61 references                             Accepted: 27 Feb. 2007
Species of the subtribes Arrenoseiina and Proprioseiopsina (Tribe Amblyseiini) and the tribe Typhlodromipsini (Acari: Phytoseiidae) from sub-Saharan Africa
GILBERTO J. DE MORAES (Brazil), IGNACE D. ZANNOU (Brazil), EDDIE A. UECKERMANN (South Africa), ANIBAL R. OLIVEIRA (Brazil), RACHID HANNA (Benin) & JOHN S. YANINEK (USA)
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Article
Zootaxa 1445: 57-64 (9 Apr. 2007) 8 plates; 11 references                             Accepted:  8 Mar. 2007
Two new species of soil mites (Acari, Oribatida, Oppiidae and Machuellidae) from Turkey
SULE BARAN & NUSRET AYYILDIZ  (Turkey)
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 1445: 65-68 (9 Apr. 2007) 1 plates; 7 references                             Accepted:  20 Feb. 2007
A new species of Amblyseius Berlese (Acari: Phytoseiidae) from Brazil
PETERSON R. DEMITE, ANTONIO C. LOFEGO & REINALDO J. F. FERES  (Brazil)
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Article
Zootaxa 1435: 41-49 (29 Mar. 2007) 4 plates; 14 references                          Accepted: 13 Feb. 2007
Halacarid mites (Acari: Halacaridae) from Esperance (Western Australia), description of two new Copidognathus species
 ILSE BARTSCH (Germany)
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Article
Zootaxa 1429: 39-53 (22 Mar. 2007) 7 plates; 21 references                         Accepted: 12 Feb. 2007
Description of seven new species in the genus Diptacus Keifer (Acari: Eriophyoidea: Diptilomiopidae: Diptilomiopinae) from northwestern China
ZI-WEI SONG, XIAO-FENG XUE & XIAO-YUE HONG (P.R. China)
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Article
Zootaxa 1426: 63-67 (15 Mar. 2007) 2 plates; 14 references                          Accepted: 31 Jan. 2007
Two new species of Disella (Eriophyidae: Nothopodinae: Nothopodini) from South China
G.-Q. WANG, D.-W. LI, S.-G. WEI (P.R. China)
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Article
Zootaxa 1425: 29-33 (15 Mar. 2007) 2 plates; 5 references                            Accepted: 30 Jan. 2007
Two new taxa in the Eriophyidae (Acari, Prostigmata) from the Brazilian fauna
 CARLOS H. W. FLECHTMANN (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1409: 68 (19 Feb. 2007)  3 references                                                Accepted: 28 Jan. 2007
Replacement name for a homonym in Typhlodromus Scheuten (Acari: Phytoseiidae)
A.C. LOFEGO & R.J.F. FERES (Brazil)
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Article
 Zootaxa 1406: 17-24 (12 Feb. 2007)  7 plates; 9 references                         Accepted: 16 Nov. 2006
Redescription of C. Willmann's Holarctic species of the genus Trhypochthonius (Acari: Oribatida: Trhypochthoniidae)
A. SZYWILEWSKA-SZCZYKUTOWICZ & Z. OLSZANOWSKI (Poland)
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Article
 Zootaxa 1406: 1-15 (12 Feb. 2007)  7 plates; 20 references                          Accepted: 27 Dec. 2006
Seven new species of the genus Epitrimerus Nalepa (Acari: Eriophyidae: Phyllocoptinae) from China
X.-F. XUE, Z.-W. SONG & X.-Y. HONG (P.R. China)
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Article
 Zootaxa 1395: 33-58 (22 Jan. 2007)  5 plates; 43 references                        Accepted: 12 Dec. 2006
Surveys for natural enemies of the tomato red spider mite Tetranychus evansi (Acari: Tetranychidae) in north-eastern and south-eastern Brazil
K. K.M. FIABOE (Kenya), M.G.C. GONDIM Jr. (Brazil), G.J. DE MORAES (Brazil), C.K.P.O. OGOL (Kenya) & M. KNAPP (Uganda)
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 Zootaxa 1391: 57-68 (15 Jan. 2007)  4 plates; 26 references                         Accepted: 14 Nov. 2006
Five new species and a new record of the genus Aculops Keifer (Acari: Eriophyidae: Phyllocoptinae) from China
X.-F. XUE, Z.-W. SONG & X.-Y. HONG (P.R. China)
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 Zootaxa 1389: 31-44 (11 Jan. 2007)  7 plates; 8 references                         Accepted: 24 Nov. 2006
Water mite species of the genus Hydrodroma Koch (Acari: Hydrachnidia, Hydrodromidae) from Australasia. Part I
 V. PESIC (Serbia and Montenegro) & H. SMIT ( The Netherlands)
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 Zootaxa 1389: 1-30 (11 Jan. 2007)  84 references                                           Accepted: 15 Nov. 2006
Eriophyoid mites (Acari: Eriophyoidea) associated with palm trees
D. Navia, M.G.FC.G. Junior & G.J. de Moraes (Brazil)
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 Zootaxa 1387: 47-57 (8 Jan. 2007) 5 plates; 21 references                              Accepted: 9 Nov. 2006
A new species of Ophiomegistus Banks (Acari: Paramegistidae) from Papua New Guinea
 H. KLOMPEN & C.C. AUSTIN (USA)
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Article
 Zootaxa 1386: 39-46 (4 Jan. 2007) 3 plates; 8 references                          Accepted: 14 Nov. 2006
Three new species of Phyllocoptinae mites (Prostigmata: Eriophyidae) associated with ornamental plants in Brazil
D. NAVIA & C.H.W. FLECHTMANN (Brazil)
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 Zootaxa 1386: 31-38 (4 Jan. 2007) 5 plates; 17 references                         Accepted: 20 Nov. 2006
A new species of Paradiplogynium (Acari: Diplogyniidae) from Titanolabis colossea (Dohrn) (Dermaptera: Anisolabididae), Australia's largest earwig
 O.D. SEEMAN (Australia)
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Article
 Zootaxa 1386: 19-29 (4 Jan. 2007) 4 plates; 26 references                          Accepted: 14 Nov. 2006
Combination of morphological characters and ITS-sequence to characterize a new species of Macrocheles (Acari: Macrochelidae)
 J. NIOGRET, A. NICOT, E. DE STORDEUR & M. BERTRAND (France)
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Article
 Zootaxa 1386: 1-17 (4 Jan. 2007) 6 plates; 25 references                             Accepted: 14 Nov. 2006
Phylleremus n. gen., from leaves of deciduous trees in eastern Australia (Oribatida: Licneremaeoidea)
V.M. BEHAN-PELLETIER & D.E. WALTER
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2006  (56 papers) 3 papers  open access 

Zootaxa 1385: 53-66 (21 Dec. 2006) 2 plates; 84 references                          Accepted: 30 Nov. 2006
Bibliographic analysis of acarological papers published in Zootaxa from 2001 to 2005, with a catalogue of described new taxa
Q.-H. FAN (P.R. China)
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Zootaxa 1368: 19-40 (30 Nov. 2006) 19 plates; 29 references                         Accepted: 7 Nov. 2006
New species of mites in the genera Uropoda, Crinitodiscus and Uroobovella from Turkey (Acari: Mesostigmata: Uropodidae, Urodinychidae)
D.A. BAL (Turkey) 
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Zootaxa 1366: 55-59 (27 Nov. 2006) 1 plate; 8 references                            Accepted: 31 Oct. 2006
A new species of Neoseiulella (Acari: Phytoseiidae) from the Macaronesian Region, Canary Islands
M.L. MORAZA & M.;.P. ESTÉVEZ (Sapin)
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Zootaxa 1359: 31-55 (16 Nov. 2006) 12 plates; 8 references                           Accepted: 11 Oct. 2006
Two new species of Tarsonemus (Acari: Tarsonemidae) associated with bark beetles (Coleoptera: Scolytidae) from Crimea, Ukraine
W.L. MAGOWSKI (Poland) & A.A. KHAUSTOV (Russia)
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Zootaxa 1354: 57-61 (9 Nov. 2006) 1  plate; 9 references                                 Accepted: 6 Oct. 2006
A new species of Stigmaeus Koch (Acari: Stigmaeidae) from Northwest of Iran
K.H. IRANI-NEJAD, M. BAGHERI, M. KHANJANI, K. KAMALI & A. SABOORI (Iran)
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Zootaxa 1329: 29-37 (5 Oct. 2006)  5 plates; 38 references                         Accepted:  30 Aug. 2006
Two new species of Veigaia Oudemans (Acari : Veigaiidae) from India
A.K. BHATTACHARYYA (India)
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Zootaxa 1320: 15-27 (25 Sept. 2006) 6 plates; 13  references                      Accepted:  21 Aug. 2006
New mites of the genus Holoparasitus Oudemans, 1936 from northern Austria and Karavanke (Acari: Parasitidae)
 W. WITALIÑSKI (Poland)
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Zootaxa 1309: 1-23 (7 Sept. 2006)  12 plates; 35  references                       Accepted:  22 Aug. 2006
Camerobia and Neophyllobius (Acari: Prostigmata: Camerobiidae) from Australia, with the descriptions of two new species
 Q.-H. FAN (P.R.China)& D.E. WALTER (Canada)
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Zootaxa 1304: 61-68 (28 Aug. 2006)  3 plates; 15  references                       Accepted:  15 Aug. 2006
A new eriophyoid mite species (Acari: Eriophyoidea) on Picea abies (Pinaceae)
 M. LEWANDOWSKI (Poland)
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Zootaxa 1303: 35-43 (28 Aug. 2006)  4 plates; 12  references                        Accepted:  1 Aug. 2006
A new genus and four new species of Phyllocoptinae (Acari: Eriophyoidea) from China
 D.-W. LI, S.-G. WEI & G.-Q. WANG (P.R.China)
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Zootaxa 1299: 45-55 (21 Aug. 2006) 7 plates; 4 references                            Accepted:  7 Jul. 2006
A new genus and species of tarsonemid mite (Acari: Tarsonemidae) from Brazil
 A. C. LOFEGO & R.J.F. FERES (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1294: 1-27 (14 Aug. 2006) 4 plates; 108 references                         Accepted:  19 Jul. 2006
 New records of phytoseiid mites (Acari: Mesostigmata) from the French Antilles, with description of Neoseiulus cecileae sp. nov.
S. KREITER, M.-S. TIXIER & J. ETIENNE (France)
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ootaxa 1279: 1-42 (3 Aug. 2006) 16 plates; 16 references                              Accepted:  2 Jun. 2006
North American species of Diamphidaxona (Acari: Hydrachnida: Hygrobatidae)
I.M. SMITH (Canada) & D.R. COOK (USA)
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Zootaxa 1276: 47-53 (31 Jul. 2006) 2 plates; 20 references                            Accepted: 7 Jul. 2006
Some zerconid mites (Acari: Mesostigmata: Zerconidae) from Kosovo (Serbia-Montenegro) with description of Zercon kosovina sp. nov.
J. KONTSCHÁN (Hungary)
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Zootaxa 1276: 55-68 (31 Jul. 2006) 3 plates; 27 references                              Accepted: 5 Jul. 2006
Larval morphology of Arrenurus cuspidifer Piersig, A. claviger Koenike, and A. latus Barrois & Moniez (Acari: Hydrachnidia)
A. ZAWAL (Poland)
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Zootaxa 1275: 31-41 (31 Jul. 2006) 3 plates; 18 references                              Accepted: 3 Jul. 2006
A new genus and three new species of Phyllocoptini (Acari: Eriophyidae: Phyllocoptinae) from the Qinling Mountains, Shaanxi Province, northwestern China
X.-F. XUE, Z.-W. SONG & X.-Y. HONG (P.R. China)
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Zootaxa 1259: 61-68 (14 Jul. 2006)  5 plates; 15 references                         Accepted: 20 Jun. 2006
First record of Simognathus (Acari: Halacaridae) from Mexico, including the description of a new species
GERARDO RIVAS (Brazil) 
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Zootaxa 1255: 1-15 (10 Jul. 2006)  5 plates; 25 references                            Accepted: 30 May 2006
New species of zerconid mites from southern Europe and the Macaronesian region (Acari: Mesostigmata: Zerconidae)
M.L. MORAZA (Spain) 
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Zootaxa 1252: 37-47 (6 Jul. 2006) 4 plates; 15 references                              Accepted: 10 Apr. 2006
A new feather mite, Aetacarus elanoides sp. n. (Acari: Gabuci-niidae), from the Swallow-tailed Kite Elanoides forficatus (Linnaeus) (Falconiformes: Accipitridae; Perninae)
H. PROCTOR (Canada), G. ZIMMERMAN (USA) & K. MEYER (USA) 
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Zootaxa 1249: 1-22 (3 Jul. 2006) 9 plates; 20 references                                 Accepted: 6 Jun. 2006
A taxonomic study of the genus Tetra Keifer (Acari: Eriophyidae: Phyllocoptinae: Anthocoptini) from Shaanxi Province, China with descriptions of nine new species
X.-F. XUE, Z.-W. SONG & X.-Y. HONG (P.R. China) 
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Zootaxa 1237: 1-18 (19 Jun. 2006) 8 plates; 25 references                             Accepted: 5 May 2006
A new genus and species of phytoseiid mites (Acari: Mesostigmata) from southern Tunisia, with discussion of its phylogenetic position
S. KREITER & M.-S. TIXIER (France) 
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Zootaxa 1235: 49-61 (19 Jun. 2006) 6 plates; 14 references                           Accepted: 4 May 2006
Two new species of the feather mite subfamily Pterodectinae (Acari: Astigmata: Proctophyllodidae) from Brazil
F.A. HERNANDES & M.P. VALIM (Brazil) 
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Zootaxa 1225: 1-19 (5 Jun. 2006) 7 plates; 26 references                                   Accepted: 6 Apr. 2006
Six new species of Rhyncaphytoptinae from northwestern China (Acari: Eriophyoidea: Diptilomiopidae)
X.-F. XUE, Z.-W. SONG & X.-Y. HONG (P.R. China) 
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Zootaxa 1223: 55-64 (5 Jun. 2006) 6 plates; 1 reference                                  Accepted: 28 Apr. 2006
Platysetosus occultus gen. nov., sp. nov., a new genus and species of mite from Tasmania (Acari: Uropodina)
M. DYLEWSKA (Poland), J. BLOSZYK (Poland) & R. B. HALLIDAY (Australia) 
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Zootaxa 1221: 25-28 (1 Jun. 2006) 1 plate; 5 references                                 Accepted: 20 Apr. 2006
A new species of Typhlodromus Scheuten (Acari: Phytoseiidae) from Brazil
A.C. LOFEGO & R.J.F. FERES (Brazil) 
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Zootaxa 1221: 63-68 (1 Jun. 2006) 1 plate; 10 references                                Accepted: 28 Apr. 2006
A new species of Dendroseius Karg from Iran (Acari: Rhodacaridae), with a key to the known species
F. FARAJI (The Netherlands), H. SAKENIN-CHELAV & W. KARG (Germany) 
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Zootaxa 1219: 1-45 (30 May 2006) 37 plates; 53 references                          Accepted: 21 Jan. 2006
Two new species of Cilliba von Heyden from Poland, with discussion of the Cilliba cassidea (Hermann) species complex (Acari: Mesostigmata: Uropodina: Cillibidae)
J. BLOSZYK (Poland), M. STACHOWIAK (Poland) & B. HALLIDAY (Australia) 
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Zootaxa 1211: 35-51 (24 May 2006) 11 plates; 11 references                        Accepted: 20 Apr. 2006
Austrostigmaeus gen. n. (Acari: Prostigmata: Stigmaeidae), with the description of a new species from Australia
Q.-H. FAN (P.R. China) & J.J. BEARD (Australia) 
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Zootaxa 1208: 25-35 (22 May 2006)  3 plates; 21 references                        Accepted: 10 Mar. 2006
New species and records of Arrenurus from the Paraná river, Argentina (Acari: Parasitengona: Arrenuridae)
ROSSO de FERRADÁS, B. (Argentina) 
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Zootaxa 1204: 1-30 (18 May 2006)  5 plates; 33 references                            Accepted: 19 Apr. 2006
Eriophyoid mite fauna from Henan Province, central China (Acari: Eriophyoidea) with descriptions of five new species
X.-F. XUE & X.-Y. HONG (P.R. China) 
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Zootaxa 1198: 53-68 (11 May 2006)  5 plates; 10 references                         Accepted: 31 Mar. 2006
Water mite species of the genus Atractides Koch (Acari: Hydrachnidia, Hygrobatidae) from Turkey, with a description of one new species
V. PESIC (Serbia) & O. ERMAN (Turkey) 
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Zootaxa 1196: 63-68 (8 May 2006)  2 plates; 19 references                           Accepted: 25 Mar. 2006
Two new species of Neophyllobius (Acari: Camerobiidae) from Turkey
M. AKYOL & K. KOÇ (Turkey) 
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Zootaxa 1194: 57-68 (4 May 2006) 2 plates; 17 references                            Accepted: 13 Mar. 2006
Morphology of larval stages of Arrenurus cuspidator (O. F. Müller) and A. maculator (O. F. Müller) (Acari: Hydrachnidia)
A. ZAWAL (Poland) 
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Zootaxa 1175: 43-54 (19 Apr. 2006) 3 plates; 9 references                              Accepted: 15 Feb. 2006
New species of palaearctic Euphthiracaridae (Acari, Oribatida)
W. NIEDBALA (Poland)
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Zootaxa 1175: 55-68 (19 Apr. 2006) 5 plates; 4 references                             Accepted: 17 Feb. 2006
New species of palaearctic Oribotritiidae (Acari, Oribatida)
W. NIEDBALA (Poland)
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Zootaxa 1167: 31-45 (6 Apr. 2006) 5 plates; 17 references                            Accepted: 14 Feb. 2006
A review of Chinese Phyllocoptes Nalepa (Acari: Eriophyoidea: Eriophyidae: Phyllocoptinae) with descriptions of five new species
Z.-W. SONG, X.-F. XUE & X.-Y. HONG (P.R. China)
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Zootaxa 1165: 33-46 (3 Apr. 2006) 1 plate; 51 references                              Accepted: 28 Feb. 2006
The two-spotted spider mite Tetranychus urticae Koch and the carmine spider mite Tetranychus cinnabarinus (Boisduval) in China mixed in their Wolbachia phylogenetic tree
L. XIE, H. MIAO & X.-Y. HONG (P.R. China)
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Zootaxa 1160: 29-36 (27 Mar. 2006) 4 plates; 22 references                           Accepted: 17 Feb. 2006
A new genus of Stigmaeidae (Acari: Prostigmata) from Okinawa Island
S. EHARA (Japan) & E.A. UECKERMANN (S. Africa)
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Zootaxa 1160: 37-47 (27 Mar. 2006) 5 plates; 15 references                           Accepted: 3 Feb. 2006
A new species of water mite (Acari: Hydrachnidia: Hygrobatidae) from the mantle cavity of the prosobranch gastropod Potadoma moerchi (Reeve) (Streptoneura: Thiaridae) in Nigeria
T. GLEDHILL (UK) & O. AGBOLADE (Nigeria)
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Zootaxa 1160: 49-55 (27 Mar. 2006) 3 plates; 9 references                            Accepted: 3 Feb. 2006
A new species of Passalozetes (Acari: Oribatida) from the Andes mountains of Argentina
P.A. MARTINEZ  & A.C. HERRERO (Argentina)
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Zootaxa 1160: 57-68 (27 Mar. 2006) 4 plates; 36 references                            Accepted: 23 Feb. 2006
Four new species of Diptilomiopinae from China (Acari: Eriophyoidea: Diptilomiopidae)
X.-F. XUE, Z.-W. SONG & X.-Y. HONG (P.R. China)
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Zootaxa 1156: 51-64 (23 Mar. 2006) 2 plates; 16 references                       Accepted: 10 Feb. 2006
Observations on the quill mites (Acari: Syringophilidae) from charadriiform birds
M. SKORACKI (Poland), J. DABERT (Poland) & R. SCHMASCHKE (Germany)