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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

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2009

 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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 Article 
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. PETANOVI
Ć (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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 Article 
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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2008

 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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 Article 
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 Article 
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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 Article 
Zootaxa 1810: 60-68 (25 Jun. 2008) 2 plates; 34 references                              Accepted: 16 Apr. 2008
An overview of Suctorian ciliates (Ciliophora, Suctorea) as epibionts of halacarid mites (Acari, Halacaridae)
IGOR DOVGAL (Ukraine), TAPAS CHATTERJEE (India) & BABAN INGOLE (India)

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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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 Article 
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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 Article 
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
S
ULE 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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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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Correspondence 
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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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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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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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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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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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

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 1385: 67-68 (21 Dec. 2006) 1 plate; 4 references                              Accepted: 15 Dec. 2006
The making of a mega-journal in taxonomy
Z.-Q. Zhang (New Zealand)

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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                                                   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)
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Zootaxa 1152: 1-43 (17 Mar. 2006) 31 plates; 22 references                               Accepted: 20 Feb. 2006
Revision of Tyroborus Oudemans, 1924 (Acari: Astigmata: Acaridae)
Q.-H. FAN (P.R. China) & Z.-Q. ZHANG (New Zealand)
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Zootaxa 1152: 59-68 (17 Mar. 2006) 3 plates; 5 references                            Accepted: 16 Jan. 2006
New records of the water mite genus Arrenurus from Iran, with the description of two new species from Iran and Cyprus (Acari, Hydrachnidia, Arrenuridae)
H. SMIT (The Netherlands) & V. PESIC (Serbia and Montenegro)
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Zootaxa 1151: 27-39 (14 Mar. 2006) 6 plates; 25 references                               Accepted: 21 Jan. 2006
A new species of Mediolata Canestrini from Spain (Acari: Stigmaeidae), re-description of M. chanti and a key to the known species of Mediolata
F. FARAJI  (The Netherlands) & E.A. UECKERMANN (S. Africa)
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Zootaxa 1141: 63-68 (8 Mar. 2006) 3 plates; 6 references                               Accepted: 26 Jan. 2006
Eriophyoid mites (Acari: Eriophyoidea) on Trochodendron aralioides (Trochodendraceae) from Taiwan
K.-W. HUANG (P. China)
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Zootaxa 1138: 1-44 (2 Mar. 2006) 13 plates; 54 references                              Accepted: 5 Jan. 2006
On the morphology and classification of larval water mites (Hydrachnidia, Acari) from springs in Luxembourg
P. MARTIN (Germany)
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Zootaxa 1138: 45-51 (2 Mar. 2006) 2 plates; 16 references                              Accepted: 13 Jan. 2006
Two new species of Tenuipalpus (Acari: Tenuipalpidae) from southeastern Brazil
N.C. MESA (Brazil), G.J. DE MORAES (Brazil) & R. OCHOA (USA)
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Zootaxa 1135: 57-68 (27 Feb. 2006) 5 plates; 12 references                             Accepted: 10 Jan. 2006
Tetrabdella neotropica (Acari: Bdellidae), a new genus and species from Brazil
F.A. HERNANDES & R.J.F. FERES (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1133: 45-59 (23 Feb. 2006) 8 plates; 22 references                             Accepted: 16 Jan. 2006
Water mites of the genus Torrenticola Piersig, 1896 (Acari, Hydrachnidia, Torrenticolidae) from Iran, with description of two new species
V. PESIC (Serbia and Montenegro), A. SABOORI (Iran), M. ASADI (Iran), R. VAFAEI (Iran) & E. SANATGAR (Iran)
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Zootaxa 1132: 31-49 (20 Feb. 2006) 9 plates; 10 references                             Accepted: 4 Jan. 2006
Trichouropoda turcicaovalis sp. nov., a new uropodine mite (Acari: Mesostigmata: Trematuridae) from Turkey
D.A. BAL  & M. OZKAN  (Turkey)
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Zootaxa 1125: 57-68 (10 Feb. 2006) 8 plates; 7 references                              Accepted: 23 Dec. 2005
Three new species of Tenuipalpus Donnadieu (Acari, Tenuipalpidae) from the State of São Paulo, Brazil
R.J.F. FERES & F.A. HERNANDES (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1121: 1-52 (2 Feb. 2006) 37 plates; 18 references                                Accepted: 19 Jan. 2006
A review of the genus Tycherobius (Acari: Camerobiidae), with descriptions of four new species from Australia
Q.-H. FAN (P.R. China) & D.E. WALTER (Canada)
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Zootaxa 1120: 41-49 (2 Feb. 2006) 2 plates; 13 references                                Accepted: 16 Dec. 2005
A new species and new record of Rhombognathus from Singapore (Acari: Halacaridae)
I. BARTSCH (Germany)
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Zootaxa 1114: 1-52 (27 Jan. 2006) 24 plates; 39 references                          Accepted: 22 Dec. 2005
Phytoseiid mites of the subtribes Typhlodromalina and Euseiina (Acari: Phytoseiidae: Euseiini) from sub-Saharan Africa
G.J. DE MORAES  (Brazil), I.D. ZANNOU (Brazil), A.R. OLIVEIRA (Brazil), J.S. YANINEK (USA) & R. HANNA (Benin)
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Zootaxa 1106: 1-24 (10 Jan. 2006) 132 references                                                Accepted: 1 Dec. 2005
An annotated checklist of mites (Arachnida: Acari) of Zambia
E.T. MWASE (Namibia) & A.S. BAKER (UK)
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2005

Zootaxa 1103: 27-39 (22 Dec. 2005) 6 plates; 11  references                              Accepted: 20 Oct. 2005
Two new species of the feather mite genus Dicrurobius Mironov, 2001 (Acari: Astigmata: Pteronyssidae) from drongos (Passeriformes: Dicruridae) in Africa
S. V. MIRONOV (Russia) & G. WAUTHY  (Belgium)
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Zootaxa 1093: 55-59 (8 Dec. 2005) 2 plates; 7 references                                 Accepted: 8 Oct. 2005
Two new species of phytoseiid mites (Acari: Phytoseiidae) from Cameroon, Central Africa
I. D. ZANNOU (Benin), C. ZUNDEL (Switzerland), R. HANNA (Benin) & GILBERTO JOSE de MORAES (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1089: 49-56 (2 Dec. 2005) 4 plates; 11 references                                Accepted: 20 Oct. 2005
A new genus and species of Trombidiinae (Acari: Trombidiidae) described from larvae ectoparasitic on aphid from Iran
A. SABOORI, M. BAGHERI, K.H. IRANI-NEJAD, K. KAMALI  & M. KHANJANI  (Iran)
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Zootaxa 1083: 1-35 (18 Nov. 2005) 17 plates; 35 references                            Accepted: 12 Sept. 2005
New species and new occurrences of Copidognathus (Acari, Halacaridae) from the northern littoral zone of São Paulo State (Brazil)
A. R. PEPATO  & C. G. TIAGO (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1081: 61-68 (15 Nov. 2005) 7 plates; 11 references                        Accepted: 14 Oct. 2005
A new species of Pterodectes Robin, 1877 (Proctophyllodidae: Pterodectinae) from the pale-breasted thrush, Turdus leucomelas (Passeriformes: Turdidae)
F. A. HERNANDES & M. P. VALIM  (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1079: 11-64 (11 Nov. 2005) 15 plates; 139 references                      Accepted: 25 Sept. 2005
Predatory mites from crops and pastures in South Africa: potential natural enemies of redlegged earth mite Halotydeus destructor (Acari: Penthaleidae)
R. B. HALLIDAY (Australia)
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Zootaxa 1078: 41-58 (7 Nov. 2005) 5 plates; 15 references                               Accepted: 21 Sept. 2005
A new genus and five new species of Eriophyoidea (Prostigmata) associated with palm trees from Brazilian Amazon
D. NAVIA  & C. H. W. FLECHTMANN (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1069: 47-60 (25 Oct. 2005) 9 plates; 13 references                           Accepted: 10 Sept. 2005
Crinitodiscus ozkani sp. n., a new uropodid mite from Turkey (Acari, Mesostigmata, Uropodidae)
D. A. BAL  (Turkey)
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Zootaxa 1067: 37-48 (21 Oct. 2005) 5 plates; 12 references                           Accepted: 28 Sept. 2005
Five new species of the genus Tetra Keifer (Acari: Eriophyoidea) from China
X.-F. XUE & X.-Y. HONG (P.R. China)
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Zootaxa 1061: 35-64 (11 Oct. 2005) 3 plates; 70 references                             Accepted: 23 Sept. 2005
On the taxonomy of water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) described from the Palaearctic, part 1: Hydrachnidae, Limnocharidae and Eylaidae
K. DAVIDS (The Netherlands), A. DI SABATINO (Italy), R. GERECKE (Germany), T. GLEDHILL (UK) & H. SMIT (The Netherlands)
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Zootaxa 1055: 49-59 (30 Sept. 2005) 5 plates; 7 references                             Accepted: 22 Sept. 2005
Five new species of Diptilomiopidae from China (Acari: Eriophyoidea)
X.-F. XUE & X.-Y. HONG (P.R. China)
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Zootaxa 1055: 60 (30 Sept. 2005
Erratum
X.-F. XUE & X.-Y. HONG
(P.R. China)
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Zootaxa 1052: 21-28 (20 Sept. 2005) 2 plates; 14 references                           Accepted: 25 Aug. 2005
Neosyringophilopsis, a new genus of the subfamily Syringophilinae (Acari: Syringophilidae)
M. SKORACKI, B. SIKORA (Poland)
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Zootaxa 1049: 49-68 (13 Sept. 2005) 66 references                                            Accepted: 18 Aug. 2005
Edaphic and plant inhabiting oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) from Cerrado and Mata Atlantica ecosystems in the State of São Paulo, southeast Brazil
A. R. OLIVEIRA (Brazil), R. A. NORTON (USA) & G
. J. DE MORAES (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1048: 37-44 (13 Sept. 2005) 2 plates; 7 references                              Accepted: 1 Sept. 2005
Two new species of Zetzellia Oudemans (Acari: Stigmaeidae) that threaten the concept of genera: disgeneric marriage?
F. A. HERNANDES & R. J.F. FERES  (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1046: 55-68 (8 Sept. 2005) 5 plates; 20 references                           Accepted: 23 Aug. 2005
On plant mites from Guadeloupe, with descriptions of four new species of Eriophyidae
C. H.W. FLECHTMANN (Brazil) & J. ETIENNE  (Guadeloupe)
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Zootaxa 1039: 1-17 (23 Aug. 2005) 9 plates; 8 references                               Accepted: 9 Aug. 2005
A new genus and eight new species of Phyllocoptini (Acari: Eriophyidae: Phyllocoptinae) from China
X.-F. XUE & X.-Y. HONG (P.R. China)
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Zootaxa 1037: 1-22 (19 Aug. 2005) 9 plates; 17 references                                 Accepted: 12 Aug. 2005
A review of the Pomerantziidae (Acari: Prostigmata: Pomerantzioidea), with the description of a new genus
Q.-H. FAN  & Y. CHEN  (P.R. China)
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Zootaxa 1037: 23-28 (19 Aug. 2005) 2 plates; 7 references                             Accepted: 14 Jul. 2005
A new eriophyoid mite in the genus Disella from Ilex paraguariensis in Brazil
D. NAVIA & C.H.W. FLECHTMAN  (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1036: 1-20 (15 Aug. 2005) 6 plates; 28 references                           Accepted:19 Jul. 2005
The genus Euryparasitus in North America (Mesostigmata: Euryparasitidae)
T. HAGELE, B. KAUFMAN, J.O. WHITAKER JR.  & H. KLOMPEN  (USA)
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Zootaxa 1036: 21-29 (15 Aug. 2005) 4 plates; 6 references                                  Accepted: 6 Aug. 2005
Mediostigmaeus gen. n. (Acari: Stigmaeidae), with the description of a new species from the USA
Q.-H. FAN (P.R. China) & D.E. WALTER  (Canada)
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Zootaxa 1030: 49-60 (8 Aug. 2005) 3 plates; 26 references                             Accepted: 26 Jul. 2005
Water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) from interstitial waters of Iran, with the description of one new species
V. PESIC (
Serbia and Montenegro), A. SABOORI (Iran), M. ASADI (Iran) & R. VAFAEI (Iran)
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Zootaxa 1028: 1-22 (2 Aug. 2005) 12 plates; 12 references                             Accepted: 20 Jul. 2005
New Zealand species of Steneotarsonemus Beer (Acari: Tarsonemidae)
J.-Z. LIN (P.R. China) & Z.-Q. ZHANG (New Zealand)
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Zootaxa 1019: 53-64 (19 Jul. 2005) 7 plates; 13 references                               Accepted: 6 Jul. 2005
Water mites of the genus Protzia Piersig, 1896 (Acari, Hydrachnidia: Hydryphantidae) from Iran 
V. PESIC
(Serbia and Montenegro)
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Zootaxa 1001: 17-30 (30 May 2005) 6 plates; 39 references                               Accepted: 6 May 2005
A new species of Gamasodes Oudemans from Australia (Acari: Parasitidae)
R. B. HALLIDAY (USA), D. E. WALTER (Canada) & M. POLAK (Poland)
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Zootaxa 994: 1-12 (25 May 2005) 4 plates; 10 references                                  Accepted: 10 May 2005
Two new species of Agauopsis (Halacaridae, Acari) from Southeastern Brazil
A.R. PEPATO & C.G. TIAGO (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 992: 1-6 (25 May 2005) 2 plates; 6 references                                  Accepted:12 May 2005
A new species of Vittacus Keifer (Acari: Eriophyidae: Phyllocoptinae) from Qinling Area, Shaanxi Province, China
X.-F. XUE, Z.-W. SONG & X.-Y. HONG (P.R. China)
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Zootaxa 884: 1-5 (7 Mar. 2005) 2 plates; 8 references                                   Accepted: 21 Feb. 2005
A new spider mite species of Schizotetranychus (Acari: Prostigmata: Tetranychidae) from Quercus gilva in Japan
S. EHARA & K. OHASHI (Japan) 
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Zootaxa 823: 1-27 (17 Jan. 2005) 15 plates, 12 references                                 Accepted: 4 Jan. 2005
Some tarsonemid mites (Acari: Tarsonemidae) from the Brazilian "Cerrado" vegetation, with descriptions of three new species
A.C. LOFEGO (Brazil), R. OCHOA (USA) & G.J. MORAES (Brazil)
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2004 (27 papers; 818 pages)

Zootaxa 763: 1-28 (10 December 2004) 18 plates; 19 references                          Accepted: 1 Dec. 2004
Revision of raphignathoid mites (Acari: Prostigmata) in the collection of H. Habeeb
Q.-H. FAN (P.R. China) & Z.-Q. ZHANG
(New Zealand)
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Zootaxa 755: 1-8 (7 December 2004) 3 plates; 9 references                             Accepted: 26 Oct. 2004
Description of species of the genera Actacarus and Scaptognathides (Acari: Halacaridae)
I. BARTSCH (Germany)
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Zootaxa 726: 1-8 (15 November 2004) 3 plates; 16 references                        Accepted: 9 Nov. 2004
New records of water mites (Acari, Hydrachnidia) from Iran, with the description of a new species
VLADIMIR PESIC
(Serbia and Montenegro)
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Zootaxa 708: 1-11 (29 October 2004) 5 plates; 20 references                          Accepted: 21 Oct. 2004
Two new plant feeding mites from Brachiaria ruziziensis in citrus groves in São Paulo, Brazil and new distribution records of other plant mites in Brazil
C.H.W. FLECHTMANN (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 691: 1-6 (21 October 2004) 2 plates; 9 references                      Accepted: 11 Oct. 2004
Quill mites (Acari: Syringophilidae) from Aegithalos caudatus (Passeriformes: Aegithalidae)
M. SKORACKI & G. HEBDA  (Poland)
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Zootaxa 673: 1-10 (6 October 2004)  5 plates; 6 references                          Accepted: 28 Sept. 2004
Water mite species of the genus Monatractides K. Viets (Acari: Hydrachnidia, Torrenticolidae) from Iran, with the description of two new species
V. PESIC (Serbia and Montenegro) & A. SABOORI
(Iran)
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Zootaxa 647: 1-20 (20 September 2004) 79 references                                 Accepted: 2 Sept. 2004
Ectoparasitic chiggers (Acari: Trombiculidae, Leeuwenhoekiidae), lice (Phthiraptera), and Hemiptera (Cimicidae and Reduviidae) from South Carolina, U.S.A.
W.K. REEVES, L.A. DURDEN & W.J. WRENN
(USA)
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Zootaxa 629: 1-19 (3 September 2004) 4 plates; 48 references                      Accepted: 12 Aug. 2004
Phylogeny of infraorder Sejina (Acari: Mesostigmata)
M. LEKVEISHVILI & H. KLOMPEN (USA)
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Zootaxa 620: 1-7 (30 August 2004) 3 plates; 12 references                           Accepted: 16 Aug. 2004
A new species of Ameroseius (Mesostigmata : Ameroseiidae) from the Indian Thar Desert
A.K. BHATTACHARYYA
(India)
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Zootaxa 615: 1-16 (25 August 2004) 7 plates; 16 references                           Accepted: 8 Aug. 2004
The genera Acaromantis and Simognathus (Simognathinae, Halacaridae) on the north coast of São Paulo State, Brazil
A.R. PEPATO & C.G. TIAGO
(Brazil)
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Zootaxa 611: 1-20 (23 August 2004) 8 plates; 6 references                        Accepted: 2 Aug. 2004
New genus and seven new species of Brazilian eriophyoid mites and redescription of Catachela machaerii Keifer (Acari: Prostigmata: Eriophyoidea)
C.H.W. FLECHTMANN
(Brazil)
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Zootaxa 599: 1-4 (9 August 2004) 1 plate; 4 references                              Accepted: 28 July 2004
A new genus and a new species of phytoseiid mite (Acari: Phytoseiidae) from northeastern Brazil
K.K.M. FIABOE (Kenya), G.J. DE MORAES, M.G.C. GONDIM Jr
(Brazil)
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Zootaxa 588: 1-20 (30 July 2004) 17 plates; 24 references                              Accepted: 20 July 2004
Water mites from Pacific Islands (Acari: Hydrachnidia)
H. SMIT (The Netherlands)

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Zootaxa 583: 1-4 (27 July 2004)  1 plate; 10 references                                      Accepted: 14 July 2004
The first records of two cheyletid mites from Turkey: Chelotomimus (Hemicheyletia) wellsi (Baker, 1949) and Hypopicheyla elongata Volgin, 1969 (Acari: Cheyletidae)
S. DOGAN  & N. AYYILDIZ (Turkey)

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Zootaxa 547: 1-8 (21 June 2004)  4 plates, 9 references                               Accepted: 9 June 2004
Rediscovery and redescription of Tetranychus gigas (Acari, Prostigmata, Tetranychidae)
D. NÁVIA & C.H.W. FLECHTMANN (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 543: 1-4 (21 June 2004)  1 plate, 4 references                               Accepted: 2 June 2004
A new species of the genus Terpnacarus Grandjean (Acari: Terpnacaridae) from Egypt
F.M. MOMEN, A.A. SAYED & A.K. NASR
(Egypt)

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Zootaxa 527: 1-8 (26 May 2004)  5 plates, 10 references                               Accepted: 20 May 2004
Eriophyoid mites of Taiwan: description of three species of Calacarini from Hueysuen (Acari: Eriophyoidea: Phyllocoptinae)
K.-W. HUANG & C.-F. WANG
(R. China)

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Zootaxa 521: 1-6 (24 May 2004)  4 plates, 4 references                             Accepted: 15 May 2004
Description of a new pterygosomatid mite (Acari, Actinedida: Pterygosomatidae) parasitic on Liolaemus spp. (Iguania: Liolaemini) from Argentina
K.D. DE LA CRUZ (USA), M. MORANDO (Argentina) & L.
AVILA (Argentina)

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Zootaxa 516: 1-18 (21 May 2004)  43  references                                            Accepted: 11 May 2004
Phytoseiid mites (Acari: Phytoseiidae) on Myrtaceae in the State of São Paulo, Brazil
A. C. LOFEGO, G. J. DE MORAES & L. A. S. CASTRO (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 495: 1-40 (27 April 2004) 17 plates; 35 references                              Accepted: 16 April 2004
Studies on water mites of the family Hygrobatidae (Acari, Hydrachnidia) from Iran, I. The water mite genus Atractides Koch, with the description of five new species
V. PESIC (Serbia and Montenegro), A. SABOORI (Iran), M.  ASADI (Iran) & R. VAFAEI (Iran
)
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Zootaxa 482: 1-4 (2 April 2004) 2 plates; 5 references                                 Accepted: 26 March 2004
The second species of the subgenus Navinaxonopsis Cook, 1967 (Acari, Hydrachnidia: Aturidae: Axonopsinae) from Iran
V. PESIC
(Serbia and Montenegro)

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Zootaxa 476: 1-11 (29 March 2004) 5 plates; 11 references                         Accepted: 19 March 2004
Oribatid mites of the genera Belba and Belbodamaeus (Acari: Oribatida: Damaeidae) from Eastern Mongolia
B. BAYARTOGTOKH (Mongolia)

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Zootaxa 470: 1-10 (23 March 2004) 2 plates; 20 references                           Accepted: 17 March 2004
Rhodacarella, a new genus of Rhodacaridae mites from North America (Acari: Mesostigmata: Rhodacaridae)
M.L. MORAZA
(USA)
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Zootaxa 455: 1-8 (9 March 2004) 4 plates; 11 references                    Accepted: 24 February 2004
Two new species of mite genus Archidispus (Acari: Heterostigmata, Scutacaridae) from Ukraine
A.A. KHAUSTOV (Ukraine)

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Zootaxa 446: 1-15 (1 March 2004) 6 plates; 17 references               Accepted: 19 February 2004
New eriophyoid mites (Acari: Eriophyoidea) from sedges in Poland and supplement description of Eriophyes lentiginosus Mitrofanov, Sharonov et Sekerskaja, 1983
A. SKORACKA, L. MACUK  & W. RAKOWSKI  (Poland)

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Zootaxa 434: 1-494 (18 February 2004) 1282 references                  Accepted: 19 December 2003
A revised catalog of the mite family Phytoseiidae
G.J. DE MORAES (Brazil) , J.A. MCMURTRY (USA), H.A. DENMARK (USA) & C.B. CAMPOS (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 403: 1-11 (12 January 2004) 6 plates; 12 references                Accepted: 30 December 2003
Two new species of the genus Cheiroseius Berlese, 1916 (Ascidae: Mesostigmata) from the Indian Thar Desert
A.K. BHATTACHARYYA & S.K. BHATTACHARYYA (India)

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2003 (17 papers; 151 pages)

Zootaxa 295: 1-7 (12 September 2003) 3 plates, 5 references              Accepted: 5 September 2003
A new species of the genus Antennoseius (Ascidae : Mesostigmata) from India
A.K. BHATTACHARYYA, A.K. SANYAL & T. BHATTACHARYA (India)

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Zootaxa 271: 1-7 (19 August 2003) 3 plates, 5 references                         Accepted: 12 August 2003
Two new species of eriophyid mites (Acari: Eriophyidae) from Guadeloupe and Marie Galante, with records on other plant mites
C. H.W. FLECHTMANN (Brazil) & J. ETIENNE (Guadeloupe)
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Zootaxa 231: 1-8  (4 July 2003) 4 plates; 6 references                                 Accepted: 1 July 2003
Discovery of Tenuipalponychus (Acari: Tetranychidae) in Malaysia and description of a new species
O. YUSOF (Malaysia) & Z.-Q. ZHANG (New Zealand)
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Zootaxa 216: 1-7 (18 June 2003) 3 plates, 7 references                                   Accepted: 1 3 June 2003
Three water mite species of the genus Protzia Piersig (Acari: Hydrachnidia) from the Balkan, with the description of one new species
VLADIMIR M. PESIC (Serbia and Montenegro)
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Zootaxa 206: 1-7 (4 June 2003)  3 plates; 7 references                              Accepted: 24 May 2003
A new species of Eotetranychus from France (Acari, Prostigmata: Tetranychidae)
P. AUGER (France), A. MIGEON (France)  & C.H.W.FLECHTMANN (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 203: 1-4 (30 May 2003)  2 plates; 5 references                                 Accepted: 24 May 2003
A new species of eriophyid mite from Iran (Acari: Prostigmata: Eriophyidae)
C.H.W. FLECHTMANN (Brazil), J. TARASI (Iran) & A. SABOORI (Iran)
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Zootaxa 198: 1-16 (19 May 2003) 9 plates, 16 references                             Accepted: 14 May 2003
Two new free living mite species of Eustigmaeus (Actinedida: Raphignathoidea: Stigmaeidae) from Poland, with new data of some other rare species of the genus
A. KAZMIERSKI & J. DONCZYK (Poland)

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Zootaxa 189: 1-10 (2 May 2003) 5 plates, 18 references                           Accepted: 24 April 2003
Two new species of Ascidae (Acarina : Mesostigmata) from India 
A. K. BHATTACHARYYA
(India)

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Zootaxa 188: 1-16 (2 May 2003) 9 plates; 14 references                               Accepted: 23 April 2003
A new species of Polydiscia (Acari, Prostigmata, Tanaupodidae) with reference to its host: a new species of Deuterosminthurus (Collembola, Symphypleona, Bourletiellidae)
E. BAQUERO, M. L. MORAZA & R. JORDANA (Spain) 

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Zootaxa 182: 1-11 (16 April 2003) 4 plates, 22 references                           Accepted: 7 April 2003
Four new tydeid species from Iran (Acari: Prostigmata)
M. KHANJANI (Iran) & E. A. UECKERMANN
(South Africa)

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Zootaxa 169: 1-4 (24 March 2003) 2 plates; 3 references                          Accepted: 17 March 2003
Pygmodispus (Pygmodispus) paraequestris spec. nov. (Acari: Heterostigmata: Scutacaridae) from Turkmenistan
A.A. KHAUSTOV (Ukraine) & P.R. CHYDYROV (Turkmenistan)

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Zootaxa 168: 1-12 (24 March 2003) 7 plates; 12 references                  Accepted: 14 March 2003
New records of the water mite genera Atractides Koch and Sperchon Kramer from the Balkan, with the description of one new species
V. M. PESIC (Serbia & Crna Gora)

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Zootaxa 153: 1-10 (5 March 2003)  3 plates; 7 references                   Accepted: 25 February 2003
New genus and species of eriophyid mites (Acari, Eriophyidae) from Myrtaceae in Brazil, with notes on damages caused by Aculus pitangae Boczek & Davis
C. H.W. FLECHTMANN & G. J. DE MORAES (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 149: 1-10 (27 February 2003)  3 plates; 5 references                Accepted: 21 February 2003
Aculus sayanicus, a new species of Eriophyidae (Acari: Eriophyoidea) from grasses in Russia
ANNA SKORACKA & ANNA PACYNA (Poland)

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Zootaxa 145: 1-8 (20 February 2003) 6 plates; 2 references               Accepted: 12February 2003
Taxonomic status of Veithia Oudemans, 1941 and redescriptions of two species described by Oudemans (Acari: Smarididae)
Z.-Q. ZHANG (New Zealand)

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Zootaxa 135: 1-4 (17 January 2003) 2 plates; 9 references            Accepted: 15 January 2003
A new species of the water mite genus Kawamuracarus Uchida from Oman (Acari: Hydrachnidia)
H. SMIT (The Netherlands)

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Zootaxa 129: 1-10 (10 January 2003) 4 plates; 15 references           Accepted: 16 December 2002
Quill mites (Acari: Prostigmata: Syringophilidae) from African passeriform birds
M. SKORACKI & B. SIKORA (Poland)

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2002 (18 papers; 177 pages)

Zootaxa 127: 1-7 (20 December 2002) 2 plates; 10 references           Accepted: 14 December 2002
Two new water mite species from Iran of the water mite families Torrenticolidae and Hygrobatidae (Acari: Hydrachnidia)
V. M. PESIC (Yugoslavia) & M. ASADI (Iran)

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Zootaxa 125: 1-12 (20 December 2002) 3 plates; 28 references           Accepted: 16 December 2002
Wetapolipus jamiesoni gen. nov., spec. nov. (Acari: Podapolipidae), an ectoparasite of the mountain stone weta, Hemideina maori (Orthoptera: Anostostomatidae) from New Zealand
R. W. HUSBAND (USA) & Z.-Q. ZHANG (New Zealand)

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Zootaxa 103: 1-23 (14 November 2002)  8 plates; 32 references               Accepted: 7 November 2002
Rheophilic water mites from southern Argentina, with the description of one new genus and three new species (Acari: Hydrachnidia)
H. SMIT (The Netherlands)

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Zootaxa 102: 1-6 (14 November 2002)  1 plate; 12 references                   Accepted: 5 November 2002
A new species of Galendromimus (Acari: Phytoseiidae) from Brazil
M.S. ZACARIAS (Brazil) , G. J. DE MORAES (Brazil) & J. A. McMURTRY (USA)

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Zootaxa 91: 1-6 (31 October 2002)  2 plates; 8 references                Accepted: 24 October 2002
Picobia paludicola sp. n. a new species of quill mite (Acari: Prostigmata: Syringophilidae) from the Aquatic Warbler Acrocephalus paludicola (Passeriformes: Sylviidae)
M. SKORACKI & G. KILJAN (Poland)

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Zootaxa 79: 1-6 (11 October 2002)  2 plates; 4 references                   Accepted: 4 October 2002
New species of phytoseiid mites from Mozambique and Malawi
I.D. ZANNOU (Benin), G.J. DE MORAES (Brazil) & R. HANNA (Benin)

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Zootaxa 75: 1-12 (3 October 2002)  5 plates; 8 references                Accepted: 30 September 2002
New Brazilian eriophyid mites (Acari: Eriophyidae)
C. H.W. FLECHTMANN & G. J. DE MORAES (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 73: 1-6 (26 September 2002)  1 plate; 11 references              Accepted: 24 September 2002
Interstitial water mites of Argentina: Omartacarus Cook (Omartacaridae) and Meramecia Cook (Limnesiidae) (Acari: Hydrachnidia)
H.R. FERNÁNDEZ (Argentina)
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Zootaxa 61: 1-10 (8 August 2002) 7 plates; 10 references                              Accepted: 26 July 2002
Two new water mite species from New Zealand (Acari: Hydrachnidia)
H. SMIT (The Netherlands)
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Zootaxa 54: 1-15 (19 July 2002) 6 plates; 18 references                                   Accepted: 15 July 2002
Two new species of eriophyoid mites (Acari: Eriophyoidea) from grasses in Poland
A. SKORACKA (Poland)
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Zootaxa 48: 1-6 (5 July 2002) 3 plates; 4 references                               Accepted: 27 June 2002
A new species of Panonychus (Acari: Tetranychidae) from Peru 
R.M.J. DE VIS & G.J. DE MORAES (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 47: 1-16 (5 July 2002) 5 plates; 24 references                             Accepted: 21 June 2002
New records of plant mites (Acari, Acaridae, Tetranychidae) from Guadeloupe and Marie Galante with descriptions of five new eriophyid species 
C. H.W. FLECHTMANN & J. ETIENNE (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 39: 1-5 (21 May 2002) 2 plates; 8 references                            Accepted: 14 May 2002
A new species of Proartacris Mohanasundaram (Acari: Eriophyidae) on Cedrus sp. in France
CARLOS H.W. FLECHTMANN (Brazil) & SERGE KREITER (France)
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Zootaxa 29: 1-8 (18 April 2002) 4 plates; 8 references                                 Accepted: 2 April 2002
Primagistemus gen. nov. (Acari: Prostigmata: Stigmaeidae)
QING-HAI FAN (China) & ZHI-QIANG ZHANG (New Zealand)
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Zootaxa 27: 1-8 (4 April 2002) 3 plates; 10 references                         Accepted: 26 March 2002
New ectoparasitic mites of the family Syringophilidae (Acari: Prostigmata: Cheyletoidea) associated with birds from Argentina
M. SKORACKI & B. SIKORA (Poland)
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Zootaxa 25: 1-15 (11 March 2002) 9 plates; 21 references                    Accepted: 1 March 2002
Paracamisia osornensis gen. n., sp. n. (Acari: Oribatida) from Valdivian forest soil in Chile
Z. OLSZANOWSKI (Poland) & R.A. NORTON (USA)

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Zootaxa 23: 1-8 (25 February 2002) 4 plates; 2 references               Accepted: 19 February 2002
Three new species of eriophyid mites (Acari: Eriophyidae) from the State of São Paulo, Brazil 
C. H.W. FLECHTMANN  & G. J. DE MORAES (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 22: 1-8 (14 February 2002) 3 plates; 20 references               Accepted: 7 February 2002
Two new species of the water mite family Pontarachnidae (Acari: Hydrachnidia), with a discussion of the taxonomic status of Pontarachna hinumaensis Imamura 
HARRY SMIT (The Netherlands)

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2001 (6 papers, 120 pages)

Zootaxa 17: 1-7 (20 December 2001) 2 plates; 8 references            Accepted: 6 December 2001
Stygohydracarus karanovici sp.n., and Atractides inflatipes Lundblad, 1956, two water mites species (Acari: Hydrachnidia) from Montenegro (SE Europe)
VLADIMIR M. PESIC (Yugoslavia)
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Zootaxa 9: 1-18 (25 October 2001) 8 plates; 25 references               Accepted: 18 October 2001
New eriophyoid mites (Acari: Eriophyoidea) associated with grasses from Mongolia 
ANNA SKORACKA, AOXIANG SHI & ANNA PACYNA (Poland)
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Zootaxa 8: 1-10 (14 September 2001) 5 plates; 5 references            Accepted: 11 September 2001
New phytoseiid mites (Acari: Phytoseiidae) from tropical Africa 
G. J. DE MORAES (Brazil), A. R. OLIVEIRA (Brazil) & I. D. ZANNOU (Benin)
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Zootaxa 5: 1-5 (17 August 2001) 2 plates; 7 references                     Accepted: 10 August 2001
A new species of Calacarus Keifer (Acari: Eriophyidae) on papaya in northeastern Brazil
CARLOS H.W. FLECHTMANN, GILBERTO J. DE MORAES & FLÁVIA R. BARBOSA (Brazil) 
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Zootaxa 3: 1-70 (30 July 2001) 45 plates; 79 references                       Accepted: 18 July 2001
Phytoseiid mites of the genus Euseius (Acari: Phytoseiidae) from Sub-Saharan Africa
G.J. DE MORAES (Brazil), E.A. UECKERMANN (S. Africa), A.R. OLIVEIRA (Brazil) & J.S. YANINEK (USA)
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Zootaxa 1: 1-10 (28 May 2001) 5 plates; 8 references; 6 links                Accepted: 16 May 2001
A new species of Tenuipalpidae (Acari: Prostigmata) on orchid from Brazil
G.J. DE MORAES & R.A.P. FREIRE (Brazil)
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