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2015

Article
Zootaxa 4058 (2): 267–277 (16 Dec. 2015)
Two new species of Ologamasus (Acari: Mesostigmata: Ologamasidae) from Brazil with a key to the world species of the genus
JANDIR C. SANTOS, RAPHAEL C. CASTILHO1, EDMILSON S. SILVA & GILBERTO J. DE MORAES
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Article
Zootaxa 4057 (3): 301–339 (11 Dec. 2015)
Supplement to the knowledge of ptyctimous mites (Acari, Oribatida) from Palaearctic Region
WOJCIECH NIEDBAŁA
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 4052 (5): 589–594 (7 Dec. 2015)
Fourth contribution to the knowledge of water mites from the Comoros, with the description of two new species (Acari: Hydrachnidia)
VLADIMIR PEŠIĆ, HARRY SMIT & NATHALIE MARY
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 4052 (5): 583–588 (7 Dec. 2015)
Two new species of the syringophilid quill mites (Acari: Prostigmata: Syringophilidae) parasitizing apodiform birds (Aves: Apodiformes)
MACIEJ SKORACKI, KATARZYNA KASZEWSKA & KATARZYNA KAVETSKA
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Article
Zootaxa 4052 (1): 135–142 (1 Dec. 2015)
New species and records of ptyctimous mites (Acari, Oribatida) from Cuba
WOJCIECH NIEDBAŁA & SERGEY G. ERMILOV
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Article
Zootaxa 4048 (2): 251–268 (25 Nov. 2015)
Neocaeculus orientalis sp. nov. (Acari, Trombidiformes, Caeculidae) from Thailand
MARUT FUANGARWORN & BUNTIKA AREEKUL BUTCHER
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Article
Zootaxa 4048 (2): 174–190 (25 Nov. 2015)
Definition of the concordis species group of the genus Euseius (Acari: Phytoseiidae), with a morphological reassessment of the species included
PAULA C. LOPES, JAMES A. MCMURTRY & GILBERTO J. DE MORAES
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Article
Zootaxa 4044 (3): 411–428 (19 Nov. 2015)
A new species of Laelaspis Berlese (Acari: Mesostigmata: Laelapidae) from Iran, with a revised generic concept and notes on significant morphological attributes in the genus
SHAHROOZ KAZEMI
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Article
Zootaxa 4044 (3): 345–370 (19 Nov. 2015)
Myrmecophilous pygmephoroid mites (Acari: Pygmephoroidea) associated with Lasius flavus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Russia
ALEXANDER A. KHAUSTOV
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Article
Zootaxa 4040 (1): 093–100 (9 Nov. 2015)
A new species of Blattisocius (Acari: Mesostigmata: Blattisociidae), with a new characterisation of the genus
DANIEL C. OLIVEIRA, ANGSUMARN CHANDRAPATYA & GILBERTO J. DE MORAES
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Article
Zootaxa 4039 (2): 312–322 (4 Nov. 2015)
Orolaelaps (Acari: Mesostigmata: Melicharidae): description of two new species, redescription of Orolaelaps quisqualis and new characterisation of the genus
NAZER FAMAH SOURASSOU, GILBERTO JOSE MORAES & JANDIR CRUZ SANTOS
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Article
Zootaxa 4034 (3): 401–444 (30 Oct. 2015)
The feather mites of the hoatzin Opisthocomus hoazin (Müller) (Aves: Opisthocomiformes), with the description of two new genera and six new species (Acari: Analgoidea, Pterolichoidea)
FABIO A. HERNANDES & SERGEY V. MIRONOV
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Article
Zootaxa 4034 (2): 390–398 (29 Oct. 2015)
Description of a new species of Ameroseius Berlese (Acari: Ameroseiidae) from Norway, with a key to related species
JOÃO PAULO Z. NARITA, WILLIAM Y. ABDUCH, GILBERTO J. DE MORAES & INGEBORG KLINGEN
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Article
Zootaxa 4033 (4): 567–583 (27 Oct. 2015)
The water mite family Hygrobatidae Koch in Australia. The genera Aspidiobatella Cook, Australorivacarus Viets, Gondwanabates Imamura and Rhynchaustrobates Cook (Acari: Hydrachnidia)
HARRY SMIT
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 4033 (3): 442–444 (23 Oct. 2015)
A new notoaturine genus from New Zealand (Acari: Hydrachnidia: Aturidae: Notoaturinae)
HARRY SMIT
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Article
Zootaxa 4032 (5): 569–581 (20 Oct. 2015)
Phytoseiid mites (Acari: Mesostigmata) from Araucaria Forest of the State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, with new records and descriptions of four new species
DINARTE GONÇALVES, UEMERSON SILVA DA CUNHA, PAULA MARIA BAMPI, GILBERTO JOSÉ DE MORAES & NOELI JUAREZ FERLA
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Article
Zootaxa 4032 (3): 264–276 (16 Oct. 2015)
Tydeus shabestariensis sp. nov. and description of the male of Neopronematus sepasgosariani (Acari: Tydeoidea), with a key to the Iranian species of Tydeus
ALI AKBARI, KARIM HADDAD IRANI-NEJAD, MOHAMMAD KHANJANI, MAHDI ARZANLOU & ANDRZEJ KAŹMIERSKI
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Article
Zootaxa 4027 (2): 151–204 (2 Oct. 2015)
Nanohystricidae n. fam., an unusual, plesiomorphic enarthronote mite family endemic to New Zealand (Acari, Oribatida)
ROY A. NORTON & MARUT FUANGARWORN
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Article
Zootaxa 4027 (1): 042–066 (1 Oct. 2015)
Zealandozetes southensis gen. nov., sp. nov. (Acari, Oribatida, Maudheimiidae) from alpine cushions plant in New Zealand
SERGEY G. ERMILOV, MARIA A. MINOR & VALERIE M. BEHAN-PELLETIER
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Monograph
Zootaxa 4023 (1): 001–130 (30 Sept. 2015)
A review of the mite subfamily Harpirhynchinae (Acariformes: Harpirhynchidae)—parasites of New World birds (Aves: Neognathae)
ANDRE V BOCHKOV, BARRY M. OCONNOR & HANS KLOMPEN
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Erratum
Zootaxa 4021 (4): 600 (29 Sept. 2015)
Erratum: ALLEN C.G. HEATH, RICARDO L. PALMA, RACHEL P. CANE & SCOTT HARDWICK (2011) CHECKLIST OF NEW ZEALAND TICKS (ACARI: IXODIDAE, ARGASIDAE). Zootaxa, 2995: 55–63.
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Article
Zootaxa 4021 (4): 515–528 (29 Sept. 2015)
Five new rotundabaloghiid mites (Acari: Uropodina) from South-East Asia
JENŐ KONTSCHÁN & BALÁZS KISS
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Article
Zootaxa 4020 (2): 335–356 (22 Sept. 2015)
Descriptions of five new eriophyoid mite species of the Diptilomiopidae (Acari: Trombidiformes: Eriophyoidea) from Zhejiang Province, China
SHAHJAHAN RAJPUT, HAO-SEN LI, XIAO-FENG XUE & XIAO-YUE HONG
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Article
Zootaxa 4013 (4): 519–530 (10 Sept. 2015)
Two new Bdellidae (Trombidiformes: Bdelloidea) from Iran and the status of Neobiscirus Gomelauri, 1963
SAEED PAKTINAT-SAEEJ, MOHAMMAD BAGHERI, ALIREZA SABOORI & MANSOUREH AHANIAZAD
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Article
Zootaxa 4013 (2): 265–279 (8 Sept. 2015)
Three new species of myrmecophilous scutacarid mites (Acari: Scutacaridae) from Western Siberia, Russia
ALEXANDER A. KHAUSTOV
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Article
Zootaxa 4013 (1): 051–066 (7 Sept. 2015)
Eriocaenus (Acari: Trombidiformes: Eriophyoidea), a new genus from Equisetum spp. (Equisetaceae): morphological and molecular delimitation of two morphologically similar species
RADMILA U. PETANOVIĆ, JAMES W. AMRINE JR, PHILIPP E. CHETVERIKOV & TATJANA K. CVRKOVIĆ
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Article
Zootaxa 4012 (2): 361–368 (3 Sept. 2015)
Third report of Allochaetophoridae Reck, 1959 (Acari: Trombidiformes) based on the description of a new species from Iran
SAYED MOSAYEB MAHDAVI & MAHDIEH ASADI
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Article
Zootaxa 4007 (2): 217–241 (27 Aug. 2015)
Review of Oribotritia (Acari, Oribatida, Oribotritiidae) with a world checklist and description of a new species from China
DONG LIU
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Article
Zootaxa 4007 (2): 181–194 (27 Aug. 2015)
New Oppiidae (Acari, Oribatida) from New Zealand
SERGEY G. ERMILOV & MARIA A. MINOR
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Article
Zootaxa 4007 (1): 029–046 (26 Aug. 2015)
Morphological and molecular characteristics of Milandanielia intermedia (Feider, 1950) (Trombidiformes: Microtrombidiidae) with data on its biology and ecology
MAGDALENA FELSKA & JOANNA MĄKOL
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Article
Zootaxa 4006 (3): 481–505 (25 Aug. 2015)
Hidden diversity of endoparasitic eriophyoid mites: two new Novophytoptus Roivainen, 1947 (Acari: Eriophyoidea: Phytoptidae) species from the parenchymatous tissues of rushes (Juncaceae)
PHILIPP E. CHETVERIKOV
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Article
Zootaxa 4006 (1): 001–039 (21 Aug. 2015)
Mites and ticks (Acari) in Shanxi Province, China: an annotated checklist
MIN MA, SHENG-CAI LI & QING-HAI FAN
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Article
Zootaxa 3999 (4): 549–559 (12 Aug. 2015)
Two new myrmecophilous species of the genus Petalomium (Acari: Pygmephoroidea: Neopygmephoridae)
ALEXANDER A. KHAUSTOV
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Article
Zootaxa 3994 (1): 069–093 (30 Jul. 2015)
Morphology and taxonomy of deutonymphs of the genus Unionicola Haldeman, 1842 (Acari, Hydrachnidia, Unionicolidae) in Russia
PETR V. TUZOVSKIJ & KSENIA A. SEMENCHENKO
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Monograph
Zootaxa 3991 (1): 001–063 (29 Jul. 2015)
Eriophyoid mite fauna (Acari: Trombidiformes: Eriophyoidea) of Turkey: new species, new distribution reports and an updated catalogue
EVSEL DENIZHAN, ROSITA MONFREDA, ENRICO DE LILLO & SULTAN ÇOBANOĞLU
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Article
Zootaxa 3990 (4): 525–550 (28 Jul. 2015)
Phytoseiid mites (Acari: Phytoseiidae) from Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego
FRANCISCO FERRAGUT & DENISE NAVIA
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Article
Zootaxa 3990 (2): 235–246 (24 Jul. 2015)
New species and records of Neopronematus (Acari: Iolinidae) from Iran with a key to world species
MARYAM DARBEMAMIEH, HAMIDREZA HAJIQANBAR, MOHAMMAD KHANJANI & ANDRZEJ KAŹMIERSKI
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Article
Zootaxa 3986 (5): 561–568 (21 Jul. 2015)
A new genus and species of Tarsonemidae (Acari: Heterostigmata) from the Atlantic Forest, Brazil
ANTONIO C. LOFEGO, PETERSON R. DEMITE & GILBERTO J. de MORAES
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Article
Zootaxa 3985 (1): 053–068 (9 Jul. 2015)
Feather mites of the genus Passeroptes Fain (Acariformes: Dermationidae) from passerines (Aves: Passeriformes) of China
NING MU, XI-JUN KUANG, HUAI LIU & ZI-YING WANG
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Article
Zootaxa 3981 (4): 542–552 (7 Jul. 2015)
On the taxonomic state of water mite taxa (Acari: Hydrachnidia) described from the Palaearctic, part 3, Hygrobatoidea and Arrenuroidea with new faunistic data
HARRY SMIT, REINHARD GERECKE, VLADIMIR PEŠIĆ & TERENCE GLEDHILL
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3981 (1): 147–150 (2 Jul. 2015)
A new species of Xystonotus Wolcott, 1900 (Acari, Hydrachnidia, Mideopsidae) from bromeliad phytotelmata in Brazilian Atlantic rainforest
VLADIMIR PEŠIĆ, GUSTAVO CAUÊ DE OLIVEIRA PICCOLI, MARCEL SANTOS DE ARAÚJO, JOSÉ MARCOS REZENDE & ANA ZANGIROLAME GONÇALVES
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Article
Zootaxa 3981 (1): 056–070 (2 Jul. 2015)
New species and records of cunaxid mites (Acari: Cunaxidae) from soil in Southern Brazil
MATHEUS DOS SANTOS ROCHA, EVERTON NEI LOPES RODRIGUES & NOELI JUAREZ FERLA
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Article
Zootaxa 3980 (2): 151–188 (29 Jun. 2015)
Taxonomy of European Damaeidae VIII. Contribution to classification of genus Damaeus C. L. Koch, 1835, with a review of Adamaeus Norton, 1978 and Paradamaeus Bulanova-Zachvatkina, 1957 and redescription of three species
LADISLAV MIKO
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Article
Zootaxa 3980 (1): 001–041 (26 Jun. 2015)
The Lasioseius phytoseioides species group (Acari: Blattisociidae): new characterisation, description of a new species, complementary notes on seven described species and a taxonomic key for the group
GILBERTO J. DE MORAES, REHAM I.A. ABO-SHNAF, YANEBIS PÉREZ-MADRUGA, LEOCADIA SÁNCHEZ, KRISHNA KARMAKAR & CHYI-CHEN HO
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Article
Zootaxa 3972 (2): 101–147 (11 Jun. 2015)
Catalogue of genera and their type species in the mite Suborder Uropodina (Acari: Mesostigmata)
R. B. HALLIDAY
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Article
Zootaxa 3972 (1): 065–074 (10 Jun. 2015)
A new genus and species of pterygosomatid mite (Acari: Pterygosomatidae) parasitizing Callopistes maculatus (Squamata: Teiidae) from Chile
MARÍA CAROLINA SILVA-DE LA FUENTE, RICARDO PAREDES-LEÓN, MARÍA EUGENIA CASANUEVA, GUSTAVO ESCOBAR-HUERTA & LUCILA MORENO SALAS
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Monograph
Zootaxa 3971 (1): 001–080 (10 Jun. 2015)
Contribution to the systematics of the genus Eurythenes S.I. Smith in Scudder, 1882 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea: Eurytheneidae)
CÉDRIC D’UDEKEM D’ACOZ & CHARLOTTE HAVERMANS
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Monograph
Zootaxa 3968 (1): 001–081 (9 Jun. 2015)
Checklist of the Quill mites (Acariformes: Syringophilidae) of the World
ELIZA GLOWSKA, MATEUSZ CHRZANOWSKI & KATARZYNA KASZEWSKA
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3964 (4): 489–493 (4 Jun. 2015)
Systematic placement of some taxa in the family Galumnidae (Acari, Oribatida)
SERGEY G. ERMILOV & BADAMDORJ BAYARTOGTOKH
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Article
Zootaxa 3964 (4): 445–459 (4 Jun. 2015)
Third contribution to the knowledge of water mites from the Comoros, with the description of two new species (Acari: Hydrachnidia)
VLADIMIR PEŠIĆ, HARRY SMIT & NATHALIE MARY
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Article
Zootaxa 3964 (2): 260–274 (2 Jun. 2015)
Phytoseiidae (Acari: Mesostigmata) from rubber tree crops in the State of Bahia, Brazil, with description of two new species
FELIPE MICALI NUVOLONI, ANTONIO CARLOS LOFEGO, ELIZEU BARBOSA CASTRO & REINALDO JOSÉ FAZZIO FERES
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3964 (1): 145–148 (29 May 2015)
Ticks (Acarina: Ixodida) infesting five reptile species in Sri Lanka with sixteen new host records
DILRUKSHI R. LIYANAARACHCHI, RUPIKA S. RAJAKARUNA, ANIL W. DIKKUMBURA,
ANSLEM DE SILVA & R.P.V. JAYANTHA RAJAPAKSE
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Article
Zootaxa 3964 (1): 001–043 (29 May 2015)
A review of Chilean chiggers (Acari: Trombiculidae), with the description of
a new genus and ten new species
ALEXANDR A. STEKOLNIKOV & DANIEL GONZÁLEZ-ACUÑA
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Article
Zootaxa 3963 (4): 451–501 (28 May 2015)
An annotated checklist of oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) of Iran
MOHAMMAD ALI AKRAMI
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Article
Zootaxa 3957 (5): 535–552 (19 May 2015)
The family Opilioacaridae (Parasitiformes: Opilioacarida) in Mexico, description of two new species and notes on biology and geographical distribution
MA. MAGDALENA VÁZQUEZ & HANS KLOMPEN
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Article
Zootaxa 3957 (4): 351–382 (18 May 2015)
The intertidal Fortuyniidae (Acari: Oribatida): new species, morphological diversity, ecology and biogeography
TOBIAS PFINGSTL
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Article
Zootaxa 3957 (3): 277–299 (15 May 2015)
To systematics of the mite genus Hoplocheylus (Acariformes: Tarsocheylidae)
ALEXANDER A. KHAUSTOV
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3957 (2): 246–248 (14 May 2015)
A new Atractides Koch (Acari: Hydrachnidia, Hygrobatidae) species from southwestern Turkey
PINAR GÜLLE, İSKENDER GÜLLE & YUNUS ÖMER BOYACI
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Article
Zootaxa 3957 (1): 098–108 (13 May 2015)
Two new species of Pachyseius Berlese (Acari: Pachylaelapidae) from Turkey, with a key to the world species
HASAN HÜSEYİN ÖZBEK & BRUCE HALLIDAY
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Article
Zootaxa 3956 (2): 224–238 (8 May 2015)
A new subgenus and two new species of oribatid mites of the genus Neoribates (Acari, Oribatida, Parakalummidae) from the Philippines
SERGEY G. ERMILOV & LEONILA CORPUZ-RAROS
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Article
Zootaxa 3956 (1): 097–112 (7 May 2015)
Tachornithoglyphus gen. nov.—a new genus of nidicolous Pyroglyphidae (Acariformes: Astigmata)
PAVEL B KLIMOV, ANDRE V BOCHKOV& BARRY M. OCONNOR
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Article
Zootaxa 3956 (1): 056–078 (7 May 2015)
The water mite genus Procorticacarus K.O. Viets in Australasia (Acari: Hydrachnidia, Hygrobatidae)
HARRY SMIT
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Article
Zootaxa 3955 (4): 549–560 (6 May 2015)
Review of the genus Myrmozercon Berlese (Acari: Laelapidae), with description of a new species from Iran
OMID JOHARCHI, ESMAEIL BABAEIAN & OWEN D. SEEMAN
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Article
Zootaxa 3949 (3): 439–444 (28 Apr. 2015)
New records of Amblyomma goeldii (Acari: Ixodidae) and description of the nymphal stage THIAGO F. MARTINS, SÉRGIO L. GIANIZELLA, PABLO H. NUNES, DIOGO C. L. O. FARIA, CARLOS A. R. DO NASCIMENTO, CARLOS R. ABRAHÃO, FLÁVIA R. MIRANDA, RODRIGO H. F. TEIXEIRA, DIEGO G. RAMIREZ, DARCI M. BARROS-BATTESTI & MARCELO B. LABRUNA
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Article
Zootaxa 3949 (2): 191–202 (24 Apr. 2015)
Establishment of Oulenziella gen. nov. for Oulenzia bakeri (Hughes, 1962) (Acari: Winterschmidtiidae)
QING-HAI FAN, SHERLY GEORGE, DONG-MEI LI & ZHI-QIANG ZHANG
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Article
Zootaxa 3947 (1): 001–029 (14 Apr. 2015)
The Crotonia fauna of New Zealand revisited (Acari: Oribatida): taxonomy, phylogeny, ecological distribution and biogeography
MATTHEW J. COLLOFF
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Article
Zootaxa 3946 (4): 567–576 (13 Apr. 2015)
Two new feather mites of the genus Neocalcealges Orwig (Analgoidea: Trouessartiidae) from the Sichuan province of China
ZI-YING WANG & HEATHER PROCTOR
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Article
Zootaxa 3946 (1): 055–078 (8 Apr. 2015)
Sexual dimorphism in Autogneta, with description of three new species from North America and new diagnosis of the genus (Acari, Oribatida, Autognetidae)
VALERIE M. BEHAN-PELLETIER
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Monograph
Zootaxa 3944 (1): 001–067 (7 Apr. 2015)
Brevipalpus phoenicis (Geijskes) species complex (Acari: Tenuipalpidae)—a closer look
JENNIFER J. BEARD, RONALD OCHOA, W. EVAN BRASWELL & GARY R. BAUCHAN
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Article
Zootaxa 3937 (1): 127–146 (24 Mar. 2015)
Acrotritia species (Acari: Oribatida: Euphthiracaridae) from China with description of a new species
DONG LIU & JUN CHEN
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Article
Zootaxa 3937 (1): 103–126 (24 Mar. 2015)
New feather mites of the genera Aniacarus and Aniibius (Acariformes: Pterolichidae) from two cuckoo species (Cuculiformes: Cuculidae) in Brazil
SERGEY V. MIRONOV, FABIO A. HERNANDES & LUIZ GUSTAVO A. PEDROSO
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Article
Zootaxa 3931 (3): 301–351 (13 Mar. 2015)
Systematics and biology of mites associated with neotropical hispine beetles in unfurled leaves of Heliconia, with descriptions of two new genera of the family Melicharidae (Acari: Mesostigmata: Gamasina: Ascoidea)
MARÍA L. MORAZA & EVERT E. LINDQUIST
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Article
Zootaxa 3926 (4): 480–498 (9 Mar. 2015)
A new genus and two new species of feather lice (Phthiraptera: Ischnocera: Philopteridae) from New Zealand endemic passerines (Aves: Passeriformes)
MICHEL P. VALIM1 & RICARDO L. PALMA
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Zootaxa 3926 (3): 413–429 (6 Mar. 2015)
Two new species of the genus Pediculaster (Acari: Pygmephoridae) from Western Siberia, Russia
ALEXANDER A. KHAUSTOV
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Article
Zootaxa 3926 (3): 329–350 (6 Mar. 2015)
Redescription of Coronoquadroppia monstruosa (Hammer, 1979) (Acari, Oribatida, Quadroppiidae) from Java and variability of the species in Europe
GERD WEIGMANN & HEINRICH SCHATZ
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Article
Zootaxa 3926 (2): 287–295 (5 Mar. 2015)
A new species of the water mite genus Hygrobates Koch, 1837 (Acari: Hydrachnidia: Hygrobatidae) from the ancient Lake Ohrid
VLADIMIR PEŠIĆ
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Article
Zootaxa 3926 (2): 229–243 (5 Mar. 2015)
Considerations on systematics of the Phytoseiidae (Acari: Mesostigmata), with definition of a new species group and description of a new species
HARALABOS TSOLAKIS & SALVATORE RAGUSA
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Article
Zootaxa 3926 (1): 111–121 (4 Mar. 2015)
Two new species of Rykellus (Acari: Mesostigmata: Ologamasidae) from Brazil and a key to the world species of the genus
JANDIR C. SANTOS, RAPHAEL C. CASTILHO, EDMILSON S. SILVA & GILBERTO J. DE MORAES
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Article
Zootaxa 3925 (3): 422–430 (2 Mar. 2015)
A new species of Geholaspis Berlese (Acari: Mesostigmata: Macrochelidae) from Northern Iran
ESMAEIL BABAEIAN, BRUCE HALLIDAY & ALIREZA SABOORI
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Article
Zootaxa 3919 (3): 401–456 (18 Feb. 2015)
Water mites of the genus Unionicola Haldeman, 1842 (Acari, Hydrachnidia, Unionicolidae) in Russia
PETR V. TUZOVSKIJ & KSENIA A. SEMENCHENKO
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Article
Zootaxa 3919 (2): 201–259 (17 Feb. 2015)
The genital area of Halacaridae (Acari), life stages and development of morphological characters and implication on the classification
ILSE BARTSCH
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Article
Zootaxa 3919 (1): 179–191 (16 Feb. 2015)
Confocal microscopy refines generic concept of a problematic taxon: rediagnosis of the genus Neoprothrix and remarks on female anatomy of eriophyoids (Acari: Eriophyoidea)
PHILIPP E. CHETVERIKOV, ALEXEY G. DESNITSKIY & DENISE NAVIA
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Article
Zootaxa 3919 (1): 111–156 (16 Feb. 2015)
Revision of the status of some genus-level water mite taxa in the families Pionidae Thor, 1900, Aturidae Thor, 1900, and Nudomideopsidae Smith, 1990 (Acari: Hydrachnidiae)
IAN M. SMITH, DAVID R. COOK & REINHARD GERECKE
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Article
Zootaxa 3919 (1): 100–110 (16 Feb. 2015)
Pseudopygmephorellus mazandaranicus sp. nov. (Acari: Heterostigmata: Pygmephoridae), phoretic on scarabaeid dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) from Iran
ALIHAN KATLAV, HAMIDREZA HAJIQANBAR & ALI ASGHAR TALEBI
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Article
Zootaxa 3918 (3): 439–445 (12 Feb. 2015)
A new species and two new records of the family Phytoseiidae (Acari: Mesostigmata) from Turkey
İSMAİL DÖKER, CENGİZ KAZAK & KAMİL KARUT
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Article
Zootaxa 3918 (1): 128–140 (10 Feb. 2015)
Three new species of the family Phthiracaridae (Acari, Oribatida) from Bolivia
WOJCIECH NIEDBAŁA & JOSEF STARÝ
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Article
Zootaxa 3918 (1): 092–112 (10 Feb. 2015)
Abalakeus Southcott, 1994 is a junior synonym of “plume-footed” Eatoniana Cambridge, 1898 (Trombidiformes, Erythraeidae)—evidence from experimental rearing
JOANNA MĄKOL & SEVGI SEVSAY
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Article
Zootaxa 3915 (3): 375–389 (4 Feb. 2015)
Brasilacarus cocaris (Acari: Opilioacaridae), a new genus and species from Amazonia, Brazil
MA. MAGDALENA VÁZQUEZ, MARCEL SANTOS DE ARAÚJO & REINALDO JOSÉ FAZZIO FERES
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Article
Zootaxa 3915 (2): 272–278 (3 Feb. 2015)
Trachyibana sarawakiensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a remarkable new genus and species from Malaysia (Acari: Uropodina: Trachyuropodidae)
JENŐ KONTSCHÁN
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Article
Zootaxa 3914 (3): 201–244 (28 Jan. 2015)
Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) in Soils of the Russian Far East
NIKOLAY A. RYABININ
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Article
Zootaxa 3911 (3): 343–356 (20 Jan. 2015)
Water mites of the genus Atractides Koch, 1837 (Acari: Hydrachnidia: Hygrobatidae) from Ghana
VLADIMIR PEŠIĆ & HARRY SMIT
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Article
Zootaxa 3905 (3): 511–528 (14 Jan. 2015)
New species of oribatid mites with auriculate pteromorphs (Acari, Oribatida, Galumnidae) from the Philippines
SERGEY G. ERMILOV & LEONILA CORPUZ-RAROS
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Article
Zootaxa 3905 (3): 500–510 (14 Jan. 2015)
Two new species of Rhombognathus (Halacaridae, Trombidiformes) from a Mangrove in the northern littoral zone of São Paulo State (Brazil)
ALMIR R. PEPATO & PAULO SERGIO AMORIM DA SILVEIRA
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Article
Zootaxa 3905 (2): 221–232 (12 Jan. 2015)
A new species of Pachyseius Berlese (Acari: Pachylaelapidae) from South Siberia (Russia), with a key to the species known from Asia
IRINA I. MARCHENKO
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Article
Zootaxa 3900 (2): 263–270 (22 Dec. 2014)
Eriophyoid mites (Acari: Prostigmata: Eriophyoidea) from Hungary: a new species on Agrimonia eupatoria (Rosaceae) and new record on Convolvulus arvensis (Convolvulaceae)
GÉZA RIPKA
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Article
Zootaxa 3900 (1): 001–020 (19 Dec. 2014)
Prolixus (Acari: Trombidiformes: Tenuipalpidae) newly recorded from New Zealand: A new species from Cyperaceae and its ontogenetic patterns in chaetotaxy
YUN XU & ZHI-QIANG ZHANG
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Article
Zootaxa 3895 (4): 547–569 (17 Dec. 2014)
New species of Uropodina from Madagascar (Acari: Mesostigmata)
JENŐ KONTSCHÁN & JOSEF STARÝ
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Article
Zootaxa 3895 (3): 419–426 (16 Dec. 2014)
Two new quill mites of the family Syringophilidae (Acari: Prostigmata) parasitising the tapaculos (Passeriformes: Rhinocryptidae) in South America
BOZENA SIKORA, KATARZYNA KASZEWSKA & MACIEJ SKORACKI
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Article
Zootaxa 3895 (2): 170–182 (15 Dec. 2014)
Post larval stages of Tanytydeus beyzavii sp. nov. (Acari: Paratydeidae) from Iran
MOHAMMAD KHANJANI, ALI REZA NADRI, MASOUMEH KHANJANI & OWEN D. SEEMAN
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Article
Zootaxa 3893 (1): 127–142 (5 Dec. 2014)
Two new species of feather mites (Acarina: Psoroptidia) from the Great Barbet, Psilopogon virens (Piciformes: Megalaimidae)
IOANA CRISTINA CONSTANTINESCU, GABRIEL CHIŞAMERA, D. KHLUR B. MUKHIM & COSTICĂ ADAM
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Article
Zootaxa 3893 (1): 077–100 (5 Dec. 2014)
A review of the ectoparasitic mites (Acari: Dermanyssoidea) associated with birds and their nests in Slovakia, with notes on identification of some species
PETER MAŠÁN, PETER FENĎA, JÁN KRIŠTOFÍK & BRUCE HALLIDAY
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Article
Zootaxa 3889 (4): 553–573 (3 Dec. 2014)
Afroleius floridus (Mahunka, 1985) comb. nov. and three new Afroleius Mahunka, 1984 species (Acari: Oribatida: Mycobatidae) from South Africa
LOUISE COETZEE
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Article
Zootaxa 3889 (3): 429–441 (2 Dec. 2014)
Two new species of tarsonemid mites (Acari: Tarsonemidae) from northeastern Brazil
JOSILENE M. SOUSA, ANTÔNIO C. LOFEGO & MANOEL G. C. GONDIM JR.
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Article
Zootaxa 3889 (1): 031–057 (28 Nov. 2014)
New and little known species of ptyctimous mites (Acari, Oribatida) from Cameroon
WOJCIECH NIEDBAŁA & JOSEF STARÝ
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Article
Zootaxa 3887 (2): 225–238 (24 Nov. 2014)
Mites of the genus Paracoroptes Lavoipierre, 1955 (Acariformes: Psoroptidae)—skin parasites of the African monkeys of the family Cercopithecidae (Primates)
ANDRE V BOCHKOV & PATRICK GROOTAERT
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Article
Zootaxa 3884 (6): 533–552 (19 Nov. 2014)
New Oppiidae (Acari: Oribatida) from the Golden Gate Highlands National Park in South Africa
ELIZABETH A. HUGO-COETZEE
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Article
Zootaxa 3884 (5): 401–418 (18 Nov. 2014)
A review of the zumpti species group of the genus Harpyrhynchoides (Acariformes: Harpirhynchidae)—ectoparasites of passerines
ANDRE V BOCHKOV & HANS KLOMPEN
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Article
Zootaxa 3884 (2): 156–168 (13 Nov. 2014)
Ptyctimous mites (Acari, Oribatida) from the Joint Russian-Vietnamese Biological Expedition (October 2013–April 2014)
WOJCIECH NIEDBAŁA & SERGEY G. ERMILOV
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Article
Zootaxa 3878 (3): 261–290 (24 Oct. 2014)
Ulyxes, a new Australopapuan mite genus associated with arboreal nests (Acari: Laelapidae)
MATTHEW D. SHAW
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Monograph
Zootaxa 3876 (1): 001–071 (21 Oct. 2014)
Water mites from Mount Kinabalu and the Crocker Range, Borneo, Malaysia (Acari: Hydrachnidia), with the description of 34 new species
HARRY SMIT & VLADIMIR PEŠIĆ
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Article
Zootaxa 3873 (1): 062–072 (14 Oct. 2014)
A new species of the genus Paravillersia (Acari: Prostigmata: Stigmaeidae) from Western Siberia, with supplementary description of Paravillersia grata Kuznetsov, 1978
ALEXANDER A. KHAUSTOV
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Article
Zootaxa 3869 (2): 131–142 (30 Sept. 2014)
Larval morphology of Hydryphantes clypeatus Thor, 1899, H. dispar Schaub, 1888 and H. planus Thon, 1899 (Acari, Hydrachnidia: Hydryphantidae)
PETR V. TUZOVSKIJ
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Monograph
Zootaxa 3865 (1): 001–071 (19 Sept. 2014)
Phytoseiid mites (Acari: Phytoseiidae) from Egypt, with new records, descriptions of new species, and a key to species
REHAM I. A. ABO-SHNAF & GILBERTO J. DE MORAES
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Article
Zootaxa 3861 (6): 531–553 (18 Sept. 2014)
A new species and new records of the genus Eustigmaeus (Acari: Prostigmata: Stigmaeidae) from Western Siberia
ALEXANDER A. KHAUSTOV & ANDREI V. TOLSTIKOV
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Article
Zootaxa 3861 (6): 501–530 (18 Sept. 2014)
Two new species of Gaeolaelaps (Acari: Mesostigmata: Laelapidae) from Iran, with a revised generic concept and notes on significant morphological characters in the genus
SHAHROOZ KAZEMI, ASMA RAJAEI & FRÉDÉRIC BEAULIEU
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Article
Zootaxa 3861 (2): 193–200 (12 Sept. 2014)
New taxa of the subfamily Picobiinae (Cheyletoidea: Syringophilidae) parasitizing antbirds and gnateaters (Passeriformes: Thamnophilidae, Conopophagidae) in Guyana
ELIZA GLOWSKA & BRIAN K. SCHMIDT
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Article
Zootaxa 3861 (2): 185–192 (12 Sept. 2014)
Two new Anoplocheylus species (Acari: Trombidiformes: Pseudocheylidae) from Kurdistan province of Iran
MOHAMMAD KHANJANI, MOHAMMAD AHMAD HOSEINI & FATEMEH AMINI
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Article
Zootaxa 3861 (1): 076–085 (11 Sept. 2014)
Eriophyoid mites (Acari: Trombidiformes: Eriophyoidea) of Rosales trees in Iran: two new species and three new records
PARISA LOTFOLLAHI, KARIM HADDAD IRANI-NEJAD & ENRICO DE LILLO
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Article
Zootaxa 3860 (4): 361–370 (8 Sept. 2014)
Validation of the taxon Ixodes aragaoi Fonseca (Acari: Ixodidae) based on morphological and molecular data
VALERIA C. ONOFRIO, DIEGO G. RAMIREZ, DALTON N. S. GIOVANNI, ARLEI MARCILI, ATILIO J. MANGOLD, JOSÉ M. VENZAL, RONALDO Z. MENDONÇA, MARCELO B. LABRUNA & DARCI M. BARROS-BATTESTI
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Article
Zootaxa 3860 (4): 301–324 (8 Sept. 2014)
New Harpirhynchinae Dubinin (Acariformes: Harpirhynchidae)—intracutaneous and feather-base parasites of birds
ANDRE V BOCHKOV & HANS KLOMPEN
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Article
Zootaxa 3860 (3): 261–279 (5 Sept. 2014)
CLSM anatomy of internal genitalia of Mackiella reclinata n. sp. and systematic remarks on eriophyoid mites from the tribe Mackiellini Keifer, 1946 (Eriophyoidea: Phytoptidae)
PHILIPP E. CHETVERIKOV, CHARNIE CRAEMER, ANDREY E. VISHNYAKOV,
SOGDIANA I. SUKHAREVA
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3860 (1): 092–096 (3 Sept. 2014)
Neoribates alius Fujikawa, 2007, a junior synonym of Neoribates pallidus Aoki, 1988 (Acari, Oribatida, Parakalummidae)
SERGEY G. ERMILOV, VLADIMIR M. SALAVATULIN, WATARU KAGA & SATOSHI SHIMANO
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Article
Zootaxa 3857 (4): 571–580 (1 Sept. 2014)
A review of quill mites (Acari: Syringophilidae) parasitising Kenyan birds
MIROSLAVA KLIMOVIČOVÁ, PETER MIKULA, NJOKI KAHURE3& MARTIN HROMADA1
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Article
Zootaxa 3857 (4): 451–477 (1 Sept. 2014)
A review of the subfamily Harpypalpinae Fain, 1972 (Acariformes: Harpirhynchidae)—parasites of passerine birds
ANDRE V BOCHKOV& HANS KLOMPEN
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Article
Zootaxa 3857 (2): 207–224 (28 Aug. 2014)
Taxonomic value of morphological and morphometrical characters in the immature stages of four species of Kampimodromus Nesbitt (Acari: Phytoseiidae) from Italy and Croatia
ELENA CARGNUS & PIETRO ZANDIGIACOMO
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Article
Zootaxa 3856 (1): 050–072 (21 Aug. 2014)
Five new species of the feather mite genus Trouessartia Canestrini from South America (Acari: Trouessartiidae)
FABIO AKASHI HERNANDES
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Article
Zootaxa 3852 (5):585–590 (19 Aug. 2014)
A new Protzia species and the first description of the female Atractides (Polymegapus) persicus Pešić & Asadi 2010 from Turkey
PINAR GÜLLE & YUNUS ÖMER BOYACI
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Article
Zootaxa 3847 (4): 583–589 (11 Aug. 2014)
A fossil Paratrombiinae mite (Actinotrichida: Trombidioidea) from the Rovno amber, Ukraine
MARTA KONIKIEWICZ & JOANNA MĄKOL
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Article
Zootaxa 3847 (4): 567–575 (11 Aug. 2014)
Two new species of Cyta (Acari: Prostigmata: Bdellidae) from Western Iran
AMIR HOSSEIN EGHBALIAN, MOHAMMAD KHANJANI, MOHAMMAD HASSAN SAFARALIZADEH & EDWARD. A. UECKERMANN
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Article
Zootaxa 3847 (4): 533–544 (11 Aug. 2014)
Two new species of Cosmolaelaps Berlese (Acari:Laelapidae) from Iran
SARA RAMROODI, JALIL HAJIZADEH & OMID JOHARCHI
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Article
Zootaxa 3846 (4): 569–576 (5 Aug. 2014)
A new species of Hypoaspis Canestrini from Iran (Acari: Laelapidae), with a key to the species occurring in the Western Palaearctic Region
OMID JOHARCH, HADI OSTOVAN & ESMAEIL BABAEIAN
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Article
Zootaxa 3846 (4): 547–560 (5 Aug. 2014)
Plant mites of the Dominican Republic, with a description of a new species of Petrobia (Tetranychina) Wainstein, 1960 (Acari, Prostigmata, Tetranychidae) and a key to the species of this subgenus
LEOCADIA SÁNCHEZ MARTÍNEZ, CARLOS H.W. FLECHTMANN & GILBERTO J. DE MORAES
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Article
Zootaxa 3846 (2): 293–300 (1 Aug. 2014)
Two new species of quill mites of the family Syringophilidae (Acariformes: Cheyletoidea) associated with treronine doves (Columbiformes: Columbidae: Treroninae)
KATARZYNA KASZEWSKA, KATARZYNA KAVETSKA & MACIEJ SKORACKI
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Article
Zootaxa 3841 (3): 364–378 (28 Jul. 2014)
Cheylostigmaeus tarae sp. nov. and Stigmaeus delaramae sp. nov. (Acari: Stigmaeidae) from Kurdistan, Iran
MOHAMMAD KHANJANI, SIAMAK NASROLLAHI, ALI SINA ZAMANI & BAHMAN ASALI FAYAZ
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Article
Zootaxa 3841 (2): 293–300 (25 Jul. 2014)
Description of a new species of Neoparaphytoseius Chant and McMurtry (Acari: Mesostigmata: Phytoseiidae) from Peru, with a redefinition of the genus
SOFÍA JIMÉNEZ, JAMES A. McMURTRY & GILBERTO J. DE MORAES
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Article
Zootaxa 3841 (2): 285–292 (25 Jul. 2014)
Haemolaelaps Berlese removed from synonomy with Androlaelaps Berlese (Acari: Laelapidae) MATTHEW D. SHAW
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Article
Zootaxa 3841 (1): 107–116 (24 Jul. 2014)
Two new species of Pachyseius Berlese (Acari: Pachylaelapidae) from Turkey, with a key to the world species
HASAN HÜSEYİN ÖZBEK & BRUCE HALLIDAY
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Article
Zootaxa 3841 (1): 001–046 (24 Jul. 2014)
Studies on European species of the water mite family Aturidae Thor (Acari: Hydrachnidia)
REINHARD GERECKE
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Monograph
Zootaxa 3840 (1): 001–072 (23 Jul. 2014)
Torrenticolid water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia: Torrenticolidae) from Malaysian Borneo
VLADIMIR PEŠIĆ & HARRY SMIT
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Article
Zootaxa 3838 (4): 486–494 (21 Jul. 2014)
A new species and record of Aceria (Acari: Prostigmata: Eriophyoidea) on Carlina spp. (Asteraceae) from Serbia
BILJANA VIDOVIĆ
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Article
Zootaxa 3838 (1): 087–097 (16 Jul. 2014)
Three new species of the genus Passeroptes Fain (Astigmata: Dermationidae) from China
ZI-YING WANG, NING MU, XIAO-HUI SU & HUAI LIU
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Article
Zootaxa 3835 (4): 593–599 (14 Jul. 2014)
A new species of Galendromimus Muma from Brazil (Acari: Phytoseiidae), with a review of the tribe Galendromimini Chant & McMurtry
PETERSON R. DEMITE, MANOEL G.C. GONDIM Jr., ANTONIO C. LOFEGO & GILBERTO J. de MORAES
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Article
Zootaxa 3835 (2): 237–250 (10 Jul. 2014)
Two new species of the genus Armascirus (Acari: Prostigmata: Cunaxidae) from India and Vietnam, with a description of the preimaginal stage of Armascirus fendai
STANISLAV KALÚZ, SERGEY G. ERMILOV & MICHAL VRABEC
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Monograph
Zootaxa 3834 (1): 001–086 (8 Jul. 2014)
Taxonomic study of oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) of Bi Dup—Nui Ba National Park (southern Vietnam)
SERGEY G. ERMILOV & ALEXANDER E. ANICHKIN
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Monograph
Zootaxa 3833 (1): 001–132 (8 Jul. 2014)
Catalogue and historical overview of juvenile instars of oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida)
ROY A. NORTON & SERGEY G. ERMILOV
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Article
Zootaxa 3827 (3): 331–342 (4 Jul. 2014)
Four new records and two new species of Phytoseiidae (Acari: Mesostigmata) from Turkey, with a key to the Turkish species
İSMAİL DÖKER, THEODOROS I. STATHAKIS, CENGİZ KAZAK, KAMİL KARUT & GEORGIOS TH. PAPADOULIS
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Article
Zootaxa 3827 (2): 258–272 (3 Jul. 2014)
Revision of Fenestrobates (Acari, Oribatellidae) with description of F. marauni sp. nov., from South America, and new diagnosis for Oribatellidae
SERGEY G. ERMILOV & VALERIE M. BEHAN-PELLETIER
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Article
Zootaxa 3827 (2): 170–186 (3 Jul. 2014)
Australian water mites of the genus Hydrachna Müller, with the description of five new species (Acari: Hydrachnidia: Hydrachnidae)
HARRY SMIT
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Article
Zootaxa 3821 (3): 373–383 (23 Jun. 2014)
New species of the genus Picobia (Cheyletoidea: Syringophilidae) parasitizing tyrannid birds (Passeriformes: Tyrannidae)
ELIZA GLOWSKA & CHRISTOPHER M. MILENSKY
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Monograph
Zootaxa 3820 (1): 001–080 (18 Jun. 2014)
Torrenticolid water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia: Torrenticolidae) from Ghana
VLADIMIR PEŠIĆ & HARRY SMIT
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Monograph
Zootaxa 3816 (1): 001–144 (18 Jun. 2014)
Ticks of Australia. The species that infest domestic animals and humans
STEPHEN C. BARKER & ALAN R. WALKER
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Article
Zootaxa 3814 (4): 495–511 (11 Jun. 2014)
Tydeid and triophtydeid mites (Acari: Tydeoidea) associated with grapevine (Vitaceae: Vitis spp.) in Brazil, with the descriptions of species of Prelorryia (André, 1980) and Tydeus Koch, 1835
GUILHERME LIBERATO DA SILVA, UEMERSON SILVA DA CUNHA, MATHEUS DOS SANTOS ROCHA, ELENI N. PANOU & NOELI JUAREZ FERLA
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Article
Zootaxa 3814 (2): 151–176 (9 Jun. 2014)
A new genus and two new species of Opilioacaridae (Acari: Parasitiformes) from Amazonia, Brazil with a key to world genera
MA. MAGDALENA VÁZQUEZ, MARCEL SANTOS DE ARAÚJO & REINALDO JOSÉ FAZZIO FERES
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Article
Zootaxa 3814 (1): 139–145 (6 Jun. 2014)
New quill mites (Cheyletoidea: Syringophilidae) parasitizing tyrannid birds (Passeriformes: Tyrannidae) in Peru
ELIZA GLOWSKA
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Article
Zootaxa 3802 (2): 257–275 (26 May 2014)
New species and new records of Tetranychidae (Acarina, Prostigmata) from Thailand
HTAR HTAR NAING, ANGSUMARN CHANDRAPATYA, MARIA NAVAJAS & PHILIPPE AUGER
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Article
Zootaxa 3802 (1): 001–022 (23 May 2014)
Loricaseius lepontinus gen. nov., sp. nov., a new genus and species of eviphidid mite from the Italian Alps (Acari: Mesostigmata), with an updated key to European genera of the family Eviphididae
MASSIMO PLUMARI & PETER MAŠÁN
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Article
Zootaxa 3796 (2): 374–384 (19 May 2014)
Taxonomy of European Damaeidae (Acari: Oribatida) VII. Redescription of Neobelba pseudopapillipes Bulanova-Zachvatkina, 1967 with comments on its generic status
LADISLAV MIKO & VASILIY B. KOLESNIKOV
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Article
Zootaxa 3795 (5): 571–577 (15 May 2014)
Phytoseiidae Database: a website for taxonomic and distributional information on phytoseiid mites (Acari)
PETERSON R. DEMITE, JAMES A. MCMURTRY & GILBERTO J. DE MORAES
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Article
Zootaxa 3795 (4): 401–420 (14 May 2014)
A new subgenus and three new species of oribatid mites of the genus Yoshiobodes (Acari, Oribatida, Carabodidae) from Vietnam
SERGEY G. ERMILOV, UMUKUSUM YA. SHTANCHAEVA, LUIS S. SUBÍAS & ALEXANDER E. ANICHKIN
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Article
Zootaxa 3795 (1): 091–095 (9 May 2014)
A new genus and species of phytoseiid mite (Acari: Phytoseiidae) from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest
MARINA FERRAZ DE CAMARGO BARBOSA, MATHEUS DOS SANTOS ROCHA
& NOELI JUAREZ FERLA
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Erratum
Zootaxa 3794 (4): 600 (8 May 2014)
Erratum: ESMAEIL BABAEIAN, OMID JOHARCHI & MARYAM KESHAVARZ JAMSHIDIAN (2014) A new species of the genus Nothrholaspis Berlese (Acari: Macrochelidae) from Iran. Zootaxa, 3784(5): 585–590.
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Article
Zootaxa 3794 (2): 237–253 (6 May 2014)
New species and new records of mites of the genus Stigmaeus (Acari: Prostigmata: Stigmaeidae) from Crimea
ALEXANDER A. KHAUSTOV
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Article
Zootaxa 3794 (1): 179–200 (5 May 2014)
On the identity of two species of Proctophyllodidae (Acari: Astigmata: Analgoidea) described by Herbert F. Berla in Brazil, with a description of Lamellodectes gen. nov. and a new species
FABIO A. HERNANDES & MICHEL P. VALIM
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Article
Zootaxa 3793 (4): 441–452 (1 May 2014)
A new species of predaceous mite of the genus Neoseiulus Hughes (Acari, Phytoseiidae), with redescriptions of N. magnanalis (Thor) and N. ellesmerei (Chant & Hansell), from Svalbard, High Arctic
LEONID A. KOLODOCHKA & DARIUSZ J. GWIAZDOWICZ
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Article
Zootaxa 3793 (1): 071–098 (28 Apr. 2014)
The genus Zambedania Mahunka 1972 (Acari: Heterostigmatina: Pygmephoridae)—redescription of the type species Z. africana and descriptions of two new species from Africa and South America
ANNE M. CAMERIK & WOJCIECH Ł. MAGOWSKI
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Article
Zootaxa 3786 (1): 091–098 (8 Apr. 2014)
The genus Emitrombidium Lombardini, 1949 (Actinotrichida: Trombidiidae) resurrected
JOANNA MĄKOL & SEVGI SEVSAY
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Article
Zootaxa 3786 (1): 057–064 (8 Apr. 2014)
New quill mites (Cheyletoidea: Syringophilidae) parasitizing the black-headed paradise-flycatcher Terpsiphone rufiventer (Passeriformes: Monarchidae) in Gabon
ELIZA GLOWSKA & BRIAN K. SCHMIDT
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Article
Zootaxa 3785 (2): 241–257 (3 Apr. 2014)
Two new species and one new record of larvae of the family Johnstonianidae (Acari: Prostigmata) from Iran with a key to species of the genus Diplothrombium
JAVAD NOEI, ALIREZA SABOORI & JALIL HAJIZADEH
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Article
Zootaxa 3785 (2): 175–200 (3 Apr. 2014)
Revision of the subfamily Onychalginae Fain, 1988 (Acariformes: Pyroglyphidae)—ectoparasites of passerine birds
ANDRE V BOCHKOV, PAVEL B KLIMOV & PATRICK GROOTAERT
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Article
Zootaxa 3784 (5): 585–590 (1 Apr. 2014)
A new species of the genus Nothrholaspis Berlese (Acari: Macrochelidae) from Iran
ESMAEIL BABAEIAN, OMID JOHARCHI & MARYAM KESHAVARZ JAMSHIDIAN
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Article
Zootaxa 3780 (3): 585–593 (24 Mar. 2014)
Three new species of the genus Austrophthiracarus from New Zealand (Acari: Oribatida: Phthiracaridae)
DONG LIU & ZHI-QIANG ZHANG
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Article
Zootaxa 3780 (2): 263–281 (21 Mar. 2014)
Beyond Moa’s Ark and Wallace’s Line: extralimital distribution of new species of Austronothrus (Acari, Oribatida, Crotoniidae) and the endemicity of the New Zealand oribatid mite fauna
MATTHEW J. COLLOFF & STEPHEN L. CAMERON
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Article
Zootaxa 3780 (1): 153–170 (20 Mar. 2014)
A new record and a new species of the genus Agistemus Summers (Acari: Stigmaeidae) from Greece
THEODOROS I. STATHAKIS, ELEFTHERIA V. KAPAXIDI & GEORGIOS TH. PAPADOULIS
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Monograph
Zootaxa 3778 (1): 001–157 (12 Mar. 2014)
Tenuipalpidae (Acari: Trombidiformes) from Casuarinaceae (Fagales)
JENNIFER J. BEARD, OWEN D. SEEMAN & GARY R. BAUCHAN
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Monograph
Zootaxa 3776 (1): 001–066 (12 Mar. 2014)
Review of the mite family Pachylaelapidae (Acari: Mesostigmata)
PETER MAŠÁN & BRUCE HALLIDAY
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Article 
Zootaxa 3774 (4): 367–380 (7 Mar. 2014)
Water mites from caves of the Ha Giang province, northern Vietnam (Acari: Hydrachnidia)
VLADIMIR PEŠIĆ & REINHARD GERECKE
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Article 
Zootaxa 3774 (4): 351–366 (7 Mar. 2014)
Two new feather mite species of the family Pteronyssidae (Acarina: Analgoidea) from Meghalaya (Northeast India)
IOANA CRISTINA CONSTANTINESCU, GABRIEL CHIŞAMERA, KHLUR B. MUKHIM & COSTICĂ ADAM
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Article 
Zootaxa 3774 (2): 275–281 (6 Mar. 2014)
A new genus and species of edaphic mite (Acari: Mesostigmata: Eviphididae) from Iran
OMID JOHARCHI, PETER MAŠÁN & ESMAEIL BABAEIAN
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Article 
Zootaxa 3774 (2): 131–151 (5 Mar. 2014)
New species of the feather mite genus Protolichus Trouessart, 1884 (Astigmata, Pterolichidae) from lories and lorikeets (Aves: Psittaciformes)
Sergey V. Mironov, Rainer Ehrnsberger & Jacek Dabert
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Article 
Zootaxa 3774 (1): 074–082 (4 Mar. 2014)
New species of Atropacarus (Hoplophorella), (Acari, Oribatida, Phthiracaridae) from the Afrotropical Region
WOJCIECH NIEDBAŁA & JOSEF STARÝ
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Article 
Zootaxa 3768 (2): 178–188 (25 Feb. 2014)
New taxa of the family Syringophilidae (Acari: Prostigmata) from African barbets and woodpeckers (Piciformes: Lybiidae, Picidae)
MACIEJ SKORACKI, MIROSLAVA KLIMOVIČOVÁ, MUCHANE MUCHAI & MARTIN HROMADA
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Article 
Zootaxa 3768 (1): 043–058 (24 Feb. 2014)
Two new species of Digamasellidae from Taiwan (Acari: Mesostigmata)
LI-MING MA, CHYI-CHEN HO & SHUN-CHENG WANG
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Monograph
Zootaxa 3767 (1): 001–256 (24 Feb. 2014)
Names for Ixodidae (Acari: Ixodoidea): valid, synonyms, incertae sedis, nomina dubia, nomina nuda, lapsus, incorrect and suppressed names—with notes on confusions and misidentifications
ALBERTO A. GUGLIELMONE & SANTIAGO NAVA
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Article 
Zootaxa 3765 (2): 194–200 (17 Feb. 2014)
Two new quill mite species of the family Syringophilidae (Acari: Prostigmata) parasitising the house sparrow Passer domesticus (L.) (Aves: Passeriformes)
MACIEJ SKORACKI & BOZENA SIKORA
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Article
Zootaxa 3764 (4): 441–454 (12 Feb. 2014)
Neophyllobius lorestanicus sp. nov. and N. ostovani sp. nov. 
(Acari: Camerobiidae) from Iran
MOHAMMAD KHANJANI, MOHAMMAD AHMAD HOSEINI, 
SHIMA YAZDANPANAH & FARSHAD MASOUDIAN
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Article 
Zootaxa 3764 (4): 401–417 (12 Feb. 2014)
New species and records of scale mites (Acari: Pterygosomatidae) 
from Arabian agamid lizards (Squamata: Agamidae)
MONIKA FAJFER & DANIEL MELNIKOV
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Article
Zootaxa 3764 (3): 317–346 (11 Feb. 2014)
Redefinition of Cosmolaelaps Berlese (Acari: Laelapidae) 
and description of five new species from Brazil
GRAZIELLE FURTADO MOREIRA, HANS KLOMPEN 
& GILBERTO JOSÉ DE MORAES
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Article 
Zootaxa 3760 (4): 553–562 (04 Feb. 2014)
A new species of eriophyoid mite, Aceria tripuraensis sp. n. 
(Acari: Eriophyoidea), on Hibiscus macrophyllus from India
PRATIBHA MENON, SUSHILA JOSHI & VILAYANOOR 
VENKATARAMAN RAMAMURTHY
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Article 
Zootaxa 3760 (1): 038–053 (30 Jan. 2014)
Charletonia cameroonensis Haitlinger & Kekeunou sp. nov. 
and the first record of C. justynae Haitlinger, 1987 (Acari: Erythraeidae) 
from Cameroon with redescription of the species
RYSZARD HAITLINGER, SÉVILOR KEKEUNOU & DARIUSZ ŁUPICKI
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Article 
Zootaxa 3755 (1): 087–095 (20 Jan. 2014)
A new species of Brevipalpus Donnadieu (Acari: Tenuipalpidae) and key to the Egyptian species
ALAA M. HALAWA & MAGDY M. FAWZY
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Article 
Zootaxa 3754 (1): 086–096 (13 Jan. 2014)
Mites of the superfamily Pygmephoroidea (Acari: Heterostigmata: Neopygmephoridae, Pygmephoridae) associated with Trox cadaverinus (Coleoptera: Trogidae) from the Far East of Russia, with description of a new genus and two new species
ALEXANDR A. KHAUSTOV & VIACHESLAV A. TRACH
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Article 
Zootaxa 3753 (4): 335–346 (08 Jan. 2014)
Water mites of the genus Brachypoda Lebert, 1879 (Acari: Hydrachnidia: Aturidae) from South Korea and the Russian Far East
VLADIMIR PEŠIĆ & KSENIA SEMENCHENKO
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Article 
Zootaxa 3753 (3): 233–250 (07 Jan. 2014)
Description of a new species of Terminalichus (Acari: Trombidiformes: Tenuipalpidae) from China
YUN XU, QING-HAI FAN & JIAN HUANG
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Article 
Zootaxa 3750 (2): 130–142 (18 Dec. 2013)
A new genus and species of Discozerconidae (Acari: Mesostigmata) from carabid beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in New Zealand
OWEN D. SEEMAN & MICHELLE R. BAKER
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Article 
Zootaxa 3750 (1): 071–082 (17 Dec. 2013)
Two new species of Gaeolaelaps (Acari: Laelapidae) from Iran
ALIREZA NEMATI & MASTANEH MOHSENI
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Article 
Zootaxa 3746 (3): 454–462 (12 Dec. 2013)
A new species of water mite (Acari, Hydrachnidia) from Assam, India, found in the gut contents of the fish Botia dario (Botiidae)
VLADIMIR PEŠIĆ, TAPAS CHATTERJEE, MRINAL KUMAR DAS & SABITRY BORDOLOI
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Article 
Zootaxa 3746 (2): 357–371 (11 Dec. 2013)
Phytoseiid mites (Acari) associated with yerba mate in southern Brazil, with description of a new species
DINARTE GONÇALVES, GUILHERME LIBERATO DA SILVA & NOELI JUAREZ FERLA
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Article 
Zootaxa 3745 (4): 469–478 (6 Dec. 2013)
New species of Hypoaspis Canestrini and Coleolaelaps Berlese (Mesostigmata: Laelapidae) associated with Polyphylla olivieri Castelnau (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) in Iran
MOHAMMAD KHANJANI, BEHNAZ GHAEDI & EDWARD. A. UECKERMANN
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Article 
Zootaxa 3745 (2): 257–262 (4 Dec. 2013)
Two new species of scale mites (Acari: Pterygosomatidae) parasitizing Agama agama (Sauria: Agamidae) from Kenya
MONIKA FAJFER
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Article 
Zootaxa 3741 (3): 459–489 (29 Nov. 2013)
Phylogenetic relationships of Tectoribates: nymphal characters of new North American species place the genus in Tegoribatidae (Acari, Oribatida)
VALERIE M. BEHAN-PELLETIER & DAVID E. WALTER
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Article 
Zootaxa 3741 (1): 172–180 (26 Nov. 2013)
A new species of Gamasiphis Berlese (Acari: Ologamasidae) from Russia (Sakhalin and Kuril Islands) with a key to the Asian species
IRINA I. MARCHENKO
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Article
Zootaxa 3734 (5): 521–535 (8 Nov. 2013)
Mites of the superfamily Rhodacaroidea (Acari: Mesostigmata) from Colombia, with a key for the world species of Desectophis Karg (Ologamasidae)
DIANA RUEDA-RAMIREZ, RAPHAEL C. CASTILHO & Gilberto J. de Moraes
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Article
Zootaxa 3734 (2): 141–155 (5 Nov. 2013)
Two new species of Armascirus (Acari: Prostigmata: Cunaxidae) from Slovakia
Stanislav KALÚZ & MICHAL VRABEC
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Article
Zootaxa 3734 (1): 038–044 (4 Nov. 2013)
A new species of Scutopalus (Acari: Cunaxidae: Cunaxoidinae) from Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil with a key to world species
MATHEUS DOS SANTOS ROCHA, MICHAEL JOSEPH SKVARLA & NOELI JUAREZ FERLA
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Article
Zootaxa 3731 (4): 577–588 (1 Nov. 2013)
New and little known ptyctimous mites (Acari, Oribatida) from India
WOJCIECH NIEDBAŁA & SERGEY G. ERMILOV
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Article
Zootaxa 3731 (2): 223–233 (30 Oct. 2013)
A new species of Ultratenuipalpus (Acari: Tenuipalpidae) from Cook Islands, with a key to the known species
YUN XU, QING-HAI FAN & ZHI-QIANG ZHANG
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Monograph
Zootaxa 3728 (1): 001–173 (25 Oct. 2013)
Leptotrombidium (Acari: Trombiculidae) of the World
ALEXANDR A. STEKOLNIKOV
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Article
Zootaxa 3722 (4): 493–500 (24 Oct. 2013)
The genus Lepidozetes Berlese, 1910 (Acari: Oribatida: Tegoribatidae) in Europe with description of a new species
GERD WEIGMANN
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Article
Zootaxa 3722 (4): 401–438 (24 Oct. 2013)
Species-groups and biogeography of the oribatid mite family Malaconothridae (Oribatida: Malaconothroidea), with new species from the south-western Pacific region
MATTHEW J. COLLOFF
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Article
Zootaxa 3721 (4): 334–350 (16 Oct. 2013)
A new species of the genus Sonotetranychus (Acari: Tetranychidae) from New Zealand
TIAN-CI YI & ZHI-QIANG ZHANG
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Article
Zootaxa 3721 (4): 301–333 (16 Oct. 2013)
Ontogenetic development and redescription of Tribolonychus collyerae (Acari: Tetranychidae)
TIAN-CI YI, QING-HAI FAN & ZHI-QIANG ZHANG
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Article 
Zootaxa 3721 (2): 101–142 (14 Oct. 2013)
Phytoseiidae in European grape (Vitis vinifera L.): bio-ecological aspects and keys to species (Acari: Mesostigmata)
MARIE-STÉPHANE TIXIER, ANDREA BALDASSAR, CARLO DUSO & SERGE KREITER
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Article 
Zootaxa 3718 (4): 317–330 (7 Oct. 2013)
New species of subgenus Megaluracarus (Acari: Hydrachnidiae: Arrenuridae: Arrenurus) from Mexico
MARCIA M. RAMÍREZ-SÁNCHEZ & GERARDO RIVAS
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Article 
Zootaxa 3718 (1): 081–088 (2 Oct. 2013)
A new species of Hydrogamasellus (Acari: Mesostigmata: Ologamasidae) from Brazil, with a key to the world species of the genus
JANDIR C. SANTOS, RAPHAEL C. CASTILHO, EDMILSON S. SILVA & Gilberto J. de Moraes
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Article 
Zootaxa 3718 (1): 073–080 (2 Oct. 2013)
A new species and new record of Reticulolaelaps Costa (Acari: Laelapidae) from Iran
ALIREZA NEMATI, OMID JOHARCHI, ESMAEIL BABAEIAN & DARIUSZ J. GWIAZDOWICZ
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Article 
Zootaxa 3718 (1): 028–038 (2 Oct. 2013)
Two new species of Rhodacaridae (Acari: Mesostigmata) from Egypt and a key to the species of the family from the Mediterranean region
REHAM I. A. ABO-SHNAF, RAPHAEL C. CASTILHO & Gilberto J. de Moraes
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Article
Zootaxa 3716 (3): 475–493 (24 Sept. 2013)
New species of Tenuipalpus (Acari: Tenuipalpidae) from Semidecidual Forest remnants in the State of São Paulo, Brazil
ELIZEU B. DE CASTRO & REINALDO J.F. FERES
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Article
Zootaxa 3716 (2): 207–235 (23 Sept. 2013)
New records of water mites mainly from Vogelkop, New Guinea (Acari: Hydrachnidia), with the description of one new genus and thirteen new species
HARRY SMIT
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Article
Zootaxa 3716 (1): 053–064 (20 Sept. 2013)
A review of Amblypalpus and Priscapalpus (Acari: Trombidiformes: Tenuipalpidae), including two new species of Amblypalpus from Iran
SADEGH FARZAN, MAHDIEH ASADI, EDWARD A. UECKERMANN, OWEN D. SEEMAN & JENNIFER J. BEARD
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Article
Zootaxa 3710 (4): 372–380 (16 Sept. 2013)
A remarkable new Nilotonia species (Acari, Hydrachnidia, Anisitsiellidae) from percolating water of a cave in Cat Ba island in Halong Bay, Vietnam
VLADIMIR PEŠIĆ
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Article
Zootaxa 3710 (2): 179–191 (12 Sept. 2013)
Description of nymphal instars of Ornithodoros mimon Kohls, Clifford & Jones, 1969 (Acari: Argasidae)
GABRIEL ALVES LANDULFO, LUISA VIANA PEVIDOR, HERMES RIBEIRO LUZ, JOÃO LUIZ HORÁCIO FACCINI, PABLO HENRIQUE NUNES & DARCI MORAES BARROS-BATTESTI
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Article
Zootaxa 3710 (1): 061–071 (11 Sept. 2013)
Feather mites of the genus Zachvatkinia Dubinin, 1949 (Astigmata: Analgoidea: Avenzoariidae) from Saudi Arabia: A new species and two new records
MOHAMED W. NEGM, MOHAMED G. E.-D. NASSER, FAHAD J. ALATAWI, AZZAM M. AL AHMAD & MOHAMMED SHOBRAK
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Article
Zootaxa 3709 (5): 461–472 (9 Sept. 2013)
Two new species of the genus Longicheles Valle, 1953 from the Kelkit Valley, Turkey, with redescription Longicheles lagrecai (Valle, 1963) (Acari: Macrochelidae)
HASAN HÜSEYİN ÖZBEK, DURMUŞ ALİ BAL & SALİH DOĞAN
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Article
Zootaxa 3709 (3): 255–266 (5 Sept. 2013)
A new species of the genus Empitrombium Southcott, 1994 (Acari: Microtrombidiidae) from Turkey
SEVGİ SEVSAY & İBRAHIM KARAKURT
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Article
Zootaxa 3709 (2): 101–133 (4 Sept. 2013)
Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) of plain area of the Southern European Russia
NATALIA V. LEBEDEVA & MARINA P. POLTAVSKAYA
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3703 (1): 017–026 (30 Aug. 2013) 
Phylum Athropoda. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal Biodiversity: An Outline of Higher-level Classification and Survey of Taxonomic Richness (Addenda 2013)
ZHI-QIANG ZHANG
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Article
Zootaxa 3702 (3): 247–261 (27 Aug. 2013)
Three new eriophyoid mite species in the tribe Phyllocoptini from Yunnan Province, southwestern China (Acari: Eriophyidae: Phyllocoptinae)
XIAO HAN, XIAO-FENG XUE & XIAO-YUE HONG
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Article
Zootaxa 3702 (1): 001–050 (23 Aug. 2013)
On the arboreal acarofauna of Hungary: Some new and rare species of prostigmatic mites (Acari: Prostigmata: Tydeidae, Iolinidae and Stigmaeidae)
GEZA RIPKA, IZABELLA LANIECKA & ANDRZEJ KAZMIERSKI
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Article
Zootaxa 3701 (2): 291–297 (19 Aug. 2013)
The first records of quill mites of the family Syringophilidae (Acariformes: Prostigmata: Cheyletoidea) from trogoniform birds (Aves: Trogoniformes)
MACIEJ SKORACKI, SERGEY V. MIRONOV & MARKUS UNSOELD
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Article
Zootaxa 3701 (2): 238–256 (19 Aug. 2013)
Stigmaeid mites (Acari: Stigmaeidae) from vineyards in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
LIANA JOHANN, GERVÁSIO SILVA CARVALHO, FERNANDA MAJOLO & NOELI JUAREZ FERLA
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Article
Zootaxa 3701 (1): 083–092 (16 Aug. 2013)
Pontarachnid mites from marine interstitial, with a description of three new species from South Korea (Acari: Hydrachnidia: Pontarachnidae)
VLADIMIR PEŠIĆ
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Article
Zootaxa 3700 (3): 547–560 (15 Aug. 2013)
New water mite species (Acari, Hydrachnidia) from Vietnam
PETR V. TUZOVSKIJ
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Article
Zootaxa 3700 (3): 301–347 (14 Aug. 2013)
Phytoseiidae (Acari: Mesostigmata) from natural ecosystems in the State of São Paulo, Brazil
GILBERTO JOSÉ DE MORAES, MARINA FERRAZ DE CAMARGO BARBOSA & TATIANE MARIE MARTINS GOMES DE CASTRO
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Article
Zootaxa 3700 (2): 271–282 (13 Aug. 2013)
Three new species of scale mites (Acari: Pterygosomatidae) parasitizing Agama sankaranica (Sauria: Agamidae)
MONIKA FAJFER
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Article
Zootaxa 3700 (2): 259–270 (13 Aug. 2013)
New taxa and new records of oribatid mites of the family Galumnidae (Acari: Oribatida) from Ecuador
SERGEY G. ERMILOV, JOSEF STARÝ, DOROTHEE SANDMANN, FRANCA MARIAN & MARK MARAUN
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Article
Zootaxa 3694 (2): 143–152 (2 Aug. 2013)
A new species of the genus Achaemenothrombium (Acari: Achaemenothrombiidae) from Iran
ALIREZA SABOORI, ANDREAS WOHLTMANN, MASOUD HAKIMITABAR & ASGHAR SHIRVANI
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Article
Zootaxa 3691 (4): 473–499 (23 Jul. 2013)
Psammochthoniidae n. fam., a paedomorphic family of oribatid mites (Oribatida: Enarthronota) from sandy soil in Thailand, Brazil and the USA
MARUT FUANGARWORN & ROY A. NORTON
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Article
Zootaxa 3691 (3): 301–323 (22 Jul. 2013)
A new genus and family of sejine mites (Acari, Parasitiformes, Mesostigmata, Sejoidea) based on new species from Lord Howe Island and Brazil, and a redescription of Sejus americanus (Banks, 1902)
DAVID EVANS WALTER
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Monograph
Zootaxa 3689 (1): 001–123 (17 Jul. 2013)
Eriophyoid mites from Northeast China (Acari: Eriophyoidea)
XIAO-FENG XUE, JING-FENG GUO & XIAO-YUE HONG
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Article
Zootaxa 3686 (3): 326–334 (12 Jul. 2013)
Water mites of the genus Brachypoda (Acari: Hydrachnidia: Aturidae) in Turkey
YUNUS ESEN, VLADIMIR PEŠIĆ & ORHAN ERMAN
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Article
Zootaxa 3686 (2): 244–254 (11 Jul. 2013)
Review of the genus Myrmozercon Berlese (Acari: Laelapidae), with description of two new species from Iran
OMID JOHARCHI & MARYAM MORADI
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Article
Zootaxa 3683 (3): 267–279 (4 Jul. 2013)
New Uropodine mites from Tanzania (Acari: Mesostigmata)
JENŐ KONTSCHÁN & JOSEF STARÝ
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Article
Zootaxa 3683 (1): 035–050 (2 Jul. 2013)
Austroteneriffia shiraziensis sp. nov. (Acari: Teneriffiidae) from southwestern Iran, with description of male and immature stages
MOHAMMAD KHANJANI, SHIMA YAZDANPANAH & BAHMAN ASALI FAYAZ
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Article
Zootaxa 3682 (3): 412–420 (28 Jun. 2013)
Three new species of the genus Pergalumna (Acari: Oribatida: Galumnidae) from India
SERGEY G. ERMILOV, UMUKUSUM YA. SHTANCHAEVA, STANISLAV KALÚZ3 & LUIS S. SUBÍAS
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Article
Zootaxa 3682 (2): 392–400 (27 Jun. 2013)
The genus Notophthiracarus of New Zealand (Acari: Oribatida: Phthiracaridae): three new species and a key to 24 described species
DONG LIU & ZHI-QIANG ZHANG
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Article
Zootaxa 3682 (2): 385–391 (27 Jun. 2013)
Two new species of Austrophthiracarus (Acari: Oribatida: Phthiracaridae) from New Zealand
DONG LIU & ZHI-QIANG ZHANG
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Article
Zootaxa 3682 (1): 105–120 (26 Jun. 2013)
Three new species of the feather mite subfamily Ingrassiinae (Acariformes: Xolalgidae) from shearwaters and petrels (Procellariiformes: Procellariidae)
LAURA M. STEFAN, ELENA GÓMEZ-DÍAZ & SERGEY MIRONOV
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Article
Zootaxa 3681 (5): 595–599 (25 Jun. 2013)
First new species of the Phytoseius horridus group (Acari: Phytoseiidae) described from Brazil, with a key to the Brazilian species of Phytoseius
GUILHERME LIBERATO DA SILVA, MATHEUS DOS SANTOS ROCHA & NOELI JUAREZ FERLA
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Article
Zootaxa 3681 (5): 563–572 (25 Jun. 2013)
Two new species of the genus Neoseiulus Hughes (Acari: Phytoseiidae) from Greece with re-description of Neoseiulus leucophaeus (Athias-Henriot)
THEODOROS I. STATHAKIS, ELEFTHERIA V. KAPAXIDI & GEORGIOS TH. PAPADOULIS
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3681 (4): 493–499 (24 Jun. 2013)
A new species of the genus Tenuipalpus (Prostigmata: Tenuipalpidae) with remarks on a conceivable ovipositor in flat mites
CARLOS H.W. FLECHTMANN & ALOYSÉIA C. S. NORONHA
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Article
Zootaxa 3681 (4): 301–346 (24 Jun. 2013)
A phylogenetic analysis and taxonomic revision of the oribatid mite family Malaconothridae (Acari: Oribatida), with new species of Tyrphonothrus and Malaconothrus from Australia
MATTHEW J. COLLOFF & STEPHEN L. CAMERON
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3681 (1): 099–099 (19 Jun. 2013)
Aceria plectrumscuti, a replacement species name for Aceria virgatae Lotfollahi et al. (Acari: Prostigmata: Eriophyidae)
PARISA LOTFOLLAHI, KARIM HADDAD IRANI-NEJAD, MOHAMAD KHANJANI, MOHAMAD MOGHADAM & ENRICO DE LILLO
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Article
Zootaxa 3670 (4): 591–600 (14 Jun. 2013)
Two new species of Halacarus (Acari, Prostigmata) from Brazil
ALMIR R. PEPATO & PAULO SERGIO AMORIM DA SILVEIRA
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Article
Zootaxa 3670 (4): 557–578 (14 Jun. 2013)
Oribatid mite fossils from pre-Quaternary sediments in Slovenian caves II. Amiracarus pliocennatus n.gen., n.sp. (Microzetidae) from Pliocene, with comments on the other species of the genus
LADISLAV MIKO, JAN MOUREK, IOANA N. MELEG & OANA T. MOLDOVAN
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Article
Zootaxa 3670 (4): 531–556 (14 Jun. 2013)
New species of Aleurodamaeus Grandjean, 1954 (Oribatida: Aleurodamaeidae) from South Africa
ELIZABETH A. HUGO-COETZEE
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Article
Zootaxa 3670 (4): 482–492 (14 Jun. 2013)
Three new species of Oppioidea (Acari: Oribatida) from India
SERGEY G. ERMILOV & STANISLAV KALÚZ
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Article
Zootaxa 3670 (3): 385–390 (13 Jun. 2013)
Two new quill mite species (Prostigmata: Syringophilidae) parasitizing Australian birds
ELIZA GLOWSKA & IZABELLA LANIECKA
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Article
Zootaxa 3666 (4): 579–590 (4 Jun. 2013)
Ornithodoros guaporensis (Acari, Ixodida: Argasidae), a new tick species from the Guaporé River Basin in the Bolivian Amazon
SANTIAGO NAVA, JOSÉ M. VENZAL, FLAVIO A. TERASSINI, ATILIO J. MANGOLD, LUIS M. A. CAMARGO GUSTAVO CASÁS & MARCELO B. LABRUNA
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Article
Zootaxa 3666 (4): 510–522 (4 Jun. 2013)
Three new species of the genus Neophyllobius Berlese (Acari: Camerobiidae) from Southern and Southwestern Iran
MOHAMMAD KHANJANI & MOHAMMAD AHMAD HOSEINI
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Article
Zootaxa 3666 (1): 073–083 (29 May 2013)
Contribution to the study of arrenuroid water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) from Turkey
YUNUS ESEN, ORHAN ERMAN & SIBEL DILKARAOGLU
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Article
Zootaxa 3666 (1): 001–015 (29 May 2013)
A new species of Neocypholaelaps Vitzthum (Acari: Ameroseiidae), with notes on the cheliceral lobes and ventral pore-like structures of mites of this family
JOÃO PAULO Z. NARITA, MARIE PÉDELABAT & GILBERTO J. DE MORAES
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Article
Zootaxa 3664 (4): 571–585 (28 May 2013)
Madeira’s ptyctimous mites (Acari, Oribatida) 
WOJCIECH NIEDBAŁA & MIROSLAWA DABERT
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Article
Zootaxa 3664 (3): 321–334 (27 May 2013)
New water mite species of the genus Piona Koch, 1842 (Acari, Hydrachnidia: Pionidae) from Northeastern Russia
PETR V. TUZOVSKIJ
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Article
Zootaxa 3664 (3): 349–360 (27 May 2013)
Eriophyoid mites (Acari: Prostigmata: Eriophyidae) associated with Compositae in Iran 
PARISA LOTFOLLAHI, KARIM HADDAD IRANI-NEJAD, MOHAMAD KHANJANI, MOHAMAD MOGHADAM & ENRICO DE LILLO
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Monograph
Zootaxa 3663 (1): 001–102 (22 May 2013)
Hotspots of new species discovery: new mite species described during 2007 to 2012
DONG LIU, TIAN-CI YI, YUN XU & ZHI-QIANG ZHANG
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Article
Zootaxa 3646 (4): 349–385 (06 May 2013)
Eriophyes species (Acari: Eriophyoidea) inhabiting lime trees (Tilia spp.: Tiliaceae)—supplementary description and morphological variability related to host plants and female forms 
GRAŻYNA SOIKA & MARCIN KOZAK
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Article
Zootaxa 3646 (1): 039–050 (01 May 2013)
A new species and new records of Gymnolaelaps Berlese from Iran (Acari: Laelapidae), with a review of the species occurring in the Western Palaearctic Region
OMID JOHARCHI & BRUCE HALLIDAY
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Article
Zootaxa 3641 (5): 565–576 (29 Apr. 2013)
Three new species of the genus Sternoppia (Acari: Oribatida: Sternoppiidae) from Ecuador
SERGEY G. ERMILOV, DOROTHEE SANDMANN, FRANCA MARIAN & MARK MARAUN
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Article
Zootaxa 3641 (5): 554–564 (29 Apr. 2013)
New species and records of quill mites of the family Syringophilidae (Acari: Prostigmata) from the passerines (Aves: Passeriformes) from the Russian Far East
MACIEJ SKORACKI & SERGEY V. MIRONOV
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Article
Zootaxa 3641 (4): 401–419 (26 Apr. 2013)
On some mites (Acari: Prostigmata) from the Interior Highlands: descriptions of the male, immature stages, and female reproductive system of Pseudocheylus americanus (Ewing, 1909) and some new state records for Arkansas
MICHAEL J. SKVARLA, J. RAY FISHER & ASHLEY P.G. DOWLING
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Article
Zootaxa 3641 (4): 379–383 (26 Apr. 2013)
A new species of the genus Promacrolaelaps (Acari: Laelapidae) associated with Propomacrus bimucronatus (Pallas) (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) in Iran
OMID JOHARCHI, BRUCE HALLIDAY & GHOLAMREZA BEYZAVI
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Article
Zootaxa 3637 (3): 254–284 (11 Apr. 2013)
Adoribatella, Ferolocella, Joelia and Ophidiotrichus (Acari, Oribatida, Oribatellidae) of North America
VALERIE M. BEHAN-PELLETIER
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Article
Zootaxa 3637 (2): 131–138 (10 Apr. 2013)
Three new species of the genus Suctobelbella (Acari: Oribatida: Suctobelbidae) from Sanjiang Plain, Northeast China
DONG LIU & DONGHUI WU
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Article 
Zootaxa 3635 (1): 40–50 (25 Mar. 2013)
Three new species of the genus Nothrholaspis (Acari: Macrochelidae) from the Kelkit Valley, Turkey
HASAN HÜSEYİN ÖZBEK & DURMUŞ ALİ BAL
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Article 
Zootaxa 3626 (4): 429–454 (15 Mar. 2013)
Biodiversity of oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) along an altitudinal gradient in the Central Alps
BARBARA M. FISCHER& HEINRICH SCHATZ
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Article 
Zootaxa 3626 (3): 381–390 (14 Mar. 2013)
A new species of Gamasiphis Berlese (Acari: Ologamasidae) from North Asia, with a key to the Eurasian species
IRINA I. MARCHENKO
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Article 
Zootaxa 3626 (3): 301–325 (14 Mar. 2013)
A revision of the genus Afroheterozercon (Acari: Heterozerconidae)
HANS KLOMPEN, MILAN AMIN & BEVERLY SWAIM GERDEMAN
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Article 
Zootaxa 3620 (3): 483–499 (7 Mar. 2013)
 review of the ecology and distribution of Protoribates (Oribatida, Oripodoidea, Haplozetidae) in Alberta, Canada, with the description of a new species
DAVID EVANS WALTER & SARAH LATONAS
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Article 
Zootaxa 3619 (5): 569–580 (4 Mar. 2013)
Larval morphology of Lebertia longiseta Bader, 1955, L. dubia Thor, 1899 and Oxus nodigerus Koenike, 1898 (Acari, Hydrachnidia: Lebertiidae, Oxidae)
PETR V. TUZOVSKIJ
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Article 
Zootaxa 3619 (3): 201–245 (28 Feb. 2013)
Morphological analysis of the oribatid mite species Scutovertex pannonicus Schuster and description of its juvenile stages (Acari: Oribatida: Scutoverticidae)
ELKE MCCULLOUGH & GÜNTHER KRISPER
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Article 
Zootaxa 3616 (6): 563–577 (25 Feb. 2013)
The feather mites (Acari, Astigmata) of the Violet-capped Woodnymph, Thalurania glaucopis (Gmelin) (Aves, Trochilidae), with descriptions of three new species
FABIO AKASHI HERNANDES
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Article 
Zootaxa 3616 (4): 367–377 (21 Feb. 2013)
Three new quill mite species of the genus Neoaulonastus Skoracki (Acari: Syringophilidae) parasitizing passerines in Tanzania
MACIEJ SKORACKI, MARTIN HROMADA & MARKUS UNSOELD
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Monograph
Zootaxa 3611 (1): 1–69 (5 Feb. 2013)
Revision of the family Listropsoralgidae Fain, 1965 (Acariformes: Sarcoptoidea) —skin parasites of marsupials and rodents
ANDRE V BOCHKOV, BARRY M OCONNOR & PATRICK GROOTAERT
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Article 
Zootaxa 3608 (6): 521–530 (23 Jan. 2013)
Ptyctimous mites (Acari, Oribatida) from Southern Vietnam with descriptions of three new species
WOJCIECH NIEDBAŁA & SERGEY G. ERMILOV
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Article 
Zootaxa 3608 (4): 253–263 (21 Jan. 2013)
Two new species of the genus Atractides KOCH, 1837 (Acari: Hydrachnidia, Hygrobatidae) from Belarus
MARIA CICHOCKA & EUGENIUSZ BIESIADKA
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Article 
Zootaxa 3608 (3): 178–190 (18 Jan. 2013)
Description of Chistyakovella insolita gen. nov., sp. nov., and redescription of the type species of Diplobodes, D. kanekoi Aoki, 1958 (Acari: Oribatida: Carabodidae)
SERGEY G. ERMILOV, JUN-ICHI AOKI & ALEXANDER E. ANICHKIN
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Article
Zootaxa 3599 (3): 291–297 (7 Jan. 2013)
Two new species of the genus Anoplocheylus Berlese, 1910 (Acari: Trombidiformes: Pseudocheylidae) from Iran
MOHAMMAD BAGHERI, ELHAM ZAREI, MANSOUREH AHANIAZAD, GHOLAMHOSSEIN GHAREKHANY & REZA NAVAEI-BONAB
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2012

Article
Zootaxa 3595: 77–88 (21 Dec. 2012) 8 plates; 14 references               Accepted: 12 Nov. 2012
Two new chiggers of the genus Xinjiangsha (Acari: Trombiculidae) and a key to species of the genus 
STANISLAV KALÚZ & JÁN KOVÁČIK (Slovak Republic)
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Article
Zootaxa 3593: 75–88 (20 Dec. 2012) 5 plates; 53 references               Accepted: 12 Nov. 2012
Two new species of the genus Papillacarus (Acari: Oribatida: Lohmanniidae) from caves of Southern Vietnam 
SERGEY G. ERMILOV (Russia), ALEXANDER E. ANICHKIN (Russia) & DONGHUI WU (China)
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Erratum 
Zootaxa 3588: 68–68 (17 Nov. 2012)
Erratum: LOTFOLLAHI, P., IRANI-NEJAD, K.H., KHANJANI, M., MOGHADAM, M. & DE LILLO, E. (2012) Two new eriophyoid mite species (Acari: Prostigmata: Eriophyidae) on Euphorbia spp. (Euphorbiaceae) from Iran. Zootaxa, 3556, 55–60.
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Article
Zootaxa 3579: 80–88 (11 Dec. 2012) 5 plates; 32 references              Accepted: 5 Nov. 2012
Redescription of the larva of Amblyomma oblongoguttatum Koch, 1844 (Acari: Ixodidae) by light and scanning electron microscopy 
FABIO S. BARBIERI, LUCIANA G. BRITO, DARCI M. BARROS-BATTESTI, KÁTIA M. FAMADAS, MARCELO B. LABRUNA & LUIS MARCELO A. CAMARGO (Brazil)
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Article
Zootaxa 3578: 43–68 (10 Dec. 2012) 15 plates; 96 references            Accepted: 25 Oct. 2012
New eriophyoid mites (Acari: Prostigmata: Eriophyoidea) in Britain: one new genus, four new species, 19 new records and two incursions 
DANIEL R. L. PYE (UK)
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Article
Zootaxa 3569: 67–78 (30 Nov. 2012) 4 plates; 25 references                  Accepted: 15 Oct. 2012
Redescription of Leptus kattikus Haitlinger, 2009 (Actinotrichida, Parasitengona, Erythraeidae) and molecular identification of its host from DNA barcoding 
JOANNA MĄKOL, MAGDALENA FELSKA, HANNA MONIUSZKO, GRZEGORZ ZALEŚNY (Poland)
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Article
Zootaxa 3563: 43–57 (26 Nov. 2012) 11 plates; 24 references              Accepted: 23 Oct. 2012
Mites of the genus Passeroptes Fain (Acariformes: Dermationidae) from passerines (Aves: Passeriformes) of North-Western Russia 
ANDRE V. BOCHKOV & SERGEY V. MIRONOV (Russia)
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Article
Zootaxa 3560: 41–60 (23 Nov. 2012) 9 plates; 55 references                Accepted: 2 Nov. 2012
Oziella sibirica (Acari: Eriophyoidea: Phytoptidae), a new eriophyoid mite species described using confocal microscopy, COI barcoding and 3D surface reconstruction 
PHILIPP E. CHETVERIKOV (Russia), FRÉDÉRIC BEAULIEU (Canada), TATJANA CVRKOVIĆ (Serbia), BILJANA VIDOVIĆ (Serbia) & RADMILA U. PETANOVIĆ (Serbia)
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Article
Zootaxa 3559: 53–57 (22 Nov. 2012) 2 plates; 6 references            Accepted: 16 Oct. 2012
A new eriophyoid mite genus and species, Gymnaceria cupuassu (Acari: Eriophyidae), described from the cupuaçu tree in Brazil 
ANIBAL R. OLIVEIRA, DANIELA F. S. RODRIGUES & CARLOS H. W. FLECHTMANN (Brazil)
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Article
Zootaxa 3556: 55–60 (20 Nov. 2012) 2 plates; 14 references               Accepted: 25 Oct. 2012
Two new eriophyoid mite species (Acari: Prostigmata: Eriophyidae) on Euphorbia spp. (Euphorbiaceae) from Iran 
PARISA LOTFOLLAHI (Iran), KARIM HADDAD IRANI-NEJAD (Iran), MOHAMAD KHANJANI (Iran), MOHAMAD MOGHADAM (Iran) & ENRICO DE LILLO (Italy)
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Article
Zootaxa 3544: 28–40 (8 Nov. 2012) 8 plates; 8 references               Accepted: 10 Oct. 2012
Four new eriophyoid mite species (Acari: Eriophyoidea: Eriophyidae) from Iran 
XIAO-FENG XUE (China), HUSSEIN SADEGHI (Iran) & XIAO-YUE HONG (China)
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Article
Zootaxa 3540: 1–49 (6 Nov. 2012) 24 plates; 14 references               Accepted: 1 Oct. 2012
North American members of the reticulata-like species group of the water mite genus Kongsbergia (Acari: Hydrachnidiae: Aturidae) 
ANDREA J. RADWELL (USA) & IAN M. SMITH (Canada)
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Article
Zootaxa 3532: 64–68 (31 Oct. 2012) 1 plate; 17 references                Accepted: 28 Sept. 2012
A new quill mite Syringophiloidus pseudonigritae sp. nov. (Prostigmata, Syringophilidae) parasitizing Pseudonigrita arnaudi (Passeriformes, Ploceidae)—a combined description using morphology and DNA barcode data 
ELIZA GLOWSKA, ANNA DRAGUN-DAMIAN & JACEK DABERT (Poland)
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Article
Zootaxa 3527: 55–62 (26 Oct. 2012) 4 plates; 17 references               Accepted: 19 Sept. 2012
A new species of Messoracarus (Acari: Mesostigmata: Aenictequoidea: Messoracaridae) from Laos 
JENŐ KONTSCHÁN (Hungary) & OWEN D. SEEMAN (Australia)
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Article
Zootaxa 3520: 56–70 (18 Oct. 2012) 12 plates; 18 references               Accepted: 2 Aug. 2012
Heterodispus cordidiscus n. sp., a new soil mite from Egypt, and remarks on the nominal species H. elongatus Trägårdh, 1905 (Acari: Heterostigmatina: Scutacaridae) 
JULIA JAGERSBACHER-BAUMANN & ERNST EBERMANN (Austria)
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Article
Zootaxa 3518: 79–88 (16 Oct. 2012) 6 plates; 29 references                 Accepted: 14 Sept. 2012
Two new flat mite species of the genus Aegyptobia Sayed, 1950 (Acari: Trombidiformes: Tenuipalpidae) from Iran 
SADEGH FARZAN (Iran), MAHDIEH ASADI (Iran), EDWARD UECKERMANN (South Africa) & ASGHAR SHIRVANI (Iran)
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Article
Zootaxa 3518: 25–44 (16 Oct. 2012) 13 plates; 10 references               Accepted: 19 Sept. 2012
New Uropodina mites from India (Acari: Mesostigmata) 
JENŐ KONTSCHÁN (Hungary)
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Monograph
Zootaxa 3516: 1–68 (12 Oct. 2012) 0 plate; 101 references                 Accepted: 4 Sept. 2012   
Feather mites (Acariformes: Psoroptidia) from Colombia: Preliminary list with new records
MAURICIO BARRETO, MARÍA E. BURBANO, HEATHER C. PROCTOR,
SERGE V. MIRONOV & GEORGES WAUTHY
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Article
Zootaxa 3515: 38–50 (12 Oct. 2012) 11 plates; 23 references              Accepted: 12 Sept. 2012
Simultaneous evidence for a new species of Torrenticola Piersig, 1896 (Acari, Hydrachnidia) from Montenegro 
VLADIMIR PEŠIĆ (Montenegro), ANTONIO G. VALDECASAS & RICARDO GARCÍA-JIMENEZ (Spain)
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Article
Zootaxa 3510: 1–40 (9 Oct. 2012) 8 plates; 73 references                   Accepted: 4 Sept. 2012
Systematic revision of the genera Geckobiella Hirst, 1917 and Hirstiella Berlese, 1920 (Acari: Prostigmata: Pterygosomatidae) with description of a new genus for American species parasites on geckos formerly placed in Hirstiella 
RICARDO PAREDES-LEÓN (Mexico), HANS KLOMPEN (USA) & TILA M. PÉREZ (Mexico)
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Article
Zootaxa 3507: 84–88 (5 Oct. 2012) 1 plate; 22 references                  Accepted: 3 Sept. 2012
Description of a new species of Typhlodromus Scheuten (Acari: Phytoseiidae) from house dust from Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil 
NOELI JUAREZ FERLA, GUILHERME LIBERATO DA SILVA & JOSEANE MOREIRA DO NASCIMENTO (Brazil)
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Article
Zootaxa 3506: 43–53 (4 Oct. 2012) 9 plates; 11 references                  Accepted: 4 Sept. 2012
Larval morphology of Unionicola figuralis (Koch, 1836), Neumania imitata Koenike, 1908, and N. spinipes (Müller, 1776) (Acari: Hydrachnidia: Unionicolidae) 
PETR V. TUZOVSKIJ (Russia)
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Article
Zootaxa 3499: 74–80 (27 Sept. 2012) 2 plates; 21 references                Accepted: 4 Sept. 2012
A new genus and species of Apoloniinae (Acari: Trombiculidae) from Oman 
ALEXANDR A. STEKOLNIKOV (Russia), SALVADOR CARRANZA (Spain) & ELENA GOMEZ-DIAZ (Spain)
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Article
Zootaxa 3481: 47–59 (13 Sept. 2012) 6 plates; 7 references                   Accepted: 1 Aug. 2012  
Six new species of the genus Euphthiracarus (Acari: Oribatida: Euphthiracaridae) from China 
DONG LIU, DONGHUI WU & JUN CHEN (China)
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Article
Zootaxa 3481: 27–38 (13 Sept. 2012) 8 plates; 44 references                 Accepted: 30 Jul. 2012  
Four new species of the superfamily Galumnoidea (Acari: Oribatida) from Ecuador 
SERGEY G. ERMILOV (Russia) & STANISLAV KALÚZ (Slovakia)
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Article
Zootaxa 3479: 52–68 (12 Sept. 2012) 6 plates; 34 references                Accepted: 7 Jun. 2012
Two new larval species of the genus Erythraeus (Erythraeus) (Acari: Erythraeidae) from Iran MOHAMMAD KHANJANI, ALI-NAGHI MIRMOAYEDI, BAHMAN ASALI FAYAZ & TAHEREH SHARIFIAN (Iran)
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Article
Zootaxa 3479: 33–51 (12 Sept. 2012) 6 plates; 47 references                Accepted: 9 Jul. 2012
Blattisocius (Acari, Blattisociidae) species from Brazil, with description of a new species, redescription of Blattisocius keegani and a key for the separation of the world species of the genus 
ERIKA P. J. BRITTO, PAULA C. LOPES & GILBERTO J. DE MORAES (Brazil)
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Monograph
Zootaxa 3471: 1–69 (7 Sept. 2012) 21 plates; 175 references                 Accepted: 25 May 2012   
Catalogue of the mite family Rhodacaridae Oudemans, with notes on the classification of the Rhodacaroidea (Acari: Mesostigmata)
RAPHAEL C. CASTILHO, GILBERTO J. DE MORAES & BRUCE HALLIDAY
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Article
Zootaxa 3453: 56–68 (5 Sept. 2012) 8 plates; 46 references                   Accepted: 13 Jul. 2012
Confocal laser scanning microscopy technique for the study of internal genitalia and external morphology of eriophyoid mites (Acari: Eriophyoidea)
PHILIPP E. CHETVERIKOV (Russia)
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Article
Zootaxa 3453: 25–42 (5 Sept. 2012) 7 plates; 20 references                   Accepted: 5 Jul. 2012
Re-evaluation of Pseudoparasitus (Gymnolaelaps) annectans (Womersley): a new genus and two new species (Acari: Mesostigmata: Laelapidae)
MATTHEW D. SHAW (Australia)
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Article
Zootaxa 3453: 1–24 (5 Sept. 2012) 1 plate; 107 references                      Accepted: 23 Jul. 2012
Phytoseiidae of Thailand (Acari: Mesostigmata), with a key for their identification
DANIEL C. OLIVEIRA (Brazil); VATANA CHARANASRI (Thailand); MANITA KONGCHUENSIN (Thailand); PLOYCHOMPOO KONVIPASRUANG (Thailand); ANGSUMARN CHANDRAPATYA (Thailand) & GILBERTO J. DE MORAES (Brazil)
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Article
Zootaxa 3451: 46–59 (4 Sept. 2012) 5 plates; 46 references                    Accepted: 23 Jul. 2012
The first electronic polytomous key to the world species of the subgenus Typhlodromus (Anthoseius) De Leon (Acari: Phytoseiidae)
FABIO AKASHI HERNANDES, SERGE KREITER & MARIE-STÉPHANE TIXIER (France)
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Article
Zootaxa 3446: 49–59 (30 Aug. 2012) 4 plates; 16 references                       Accepted: 13 Jul. 2012
Eriophyoid mites (Acari: Prostigmata: Eriophyoidea) on palms (Arecaceae) from the Brazilian Amazon: a new genus and four new species
ALEUNY C. REIS, MANOEL G. C. GONDIM JR., DENISE NAVIA & CARLOS H. W. FLECHTMANN (Brazil)
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3440: 63–67 (27 Aug. 2012) 2 plates; 12 references                     Accepted: 12 Jul. 2012
A new species of Pontarachna (Acari, Hydrachnidia, Pontarachnidae) from a mesophotic coral ecosystem off Vieques Island, Puerto Rico, Caribbean Sea
VLADIMIR PEŠIĆ (Montenegro), TAPAS CHATTERJEE (India) & NIKOLAOS V. SCHIZAS (USA)
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Article
Zootaxa 3440: 1–49 (27 Aug. 2012) 27 plates; 82 references                     Accepted: 9 Jul. 2012
New feather mites of the subfamily Pterodectinae (Acari: Proctophyllodidae) from passerines and woodpeckers (Aves: Passeriformes and Piciformes) in Vietnam
SERGEY MIRONOV (Russia), IVAN LITERAK (Czech Republic), NGUYEN MANH HUNG (Vietnam) & MIROSLAV CAPEK (Czech Republic)
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Article
Zootaxa 3435: 1–39 (23 Aug. 2012) 19 plates; 74 references                     Accepted: 22 Jun. 2012
New eremaeozetid mites (Acari: Oribatida: Eremaeozetoidea) from the south-western Pacific region and the taxonomic status of the Eremaeozetidae and Idiozetidae
MATTHEW J. COLLOFF (Australia)
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Article
Zootaxa 3433: 1–59 (22 Aug. 2012) 40 plates; 25 references                    Accepted: 22 Jun. 2012
The false spider mites of the genus Cenopalpus Pritchard & Baker (Acari: Tenuipalpidae) from Iran
MASOUMEH KHANJANI (Iran), MOHAMMAD KHANJANI (Iran), ALIREZA SABOORI (Iran) & OWEN D. SEEMAN (Australia)
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Monograph
Zootaxa 3432: 1–62 (21 Aug. 2012) 30 plates; 34 references                 Accepted: 21 Jun. 2012   
Oribatella (Acari, Oribatida, Oribatellidae) of western North America
VALERIE M. BEHAN-PELLETIER & DAVID E. WALTER
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Article
Zootaxa 3416: 53–68 (9 Aug. 2012) 16 plates; 15 references                      Accepted: 20 Jun. 2012
A new species of Neocarus Chamberlin & Mulaik, 1942 (Acari: Opilioacarida) from Brazilian caves and karst areas
LEOPOLDO FERREIRA DE OLIVEIRA BERNARDI, MAURICIO SERGIO ZACARIAS & RODRIGO LOPES FERREIRA (Brazil)
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Article
Zootaxa 3410: 1–18 (6 Aug. 2012) 8 plates; 20 references                        Accepted: 28 May 2012
Fur mites of the genus Schizocarpus Trouessart (Acari: Chirodiscidae) from the Eurasian beaver Castor fiber tuvinicus Lavrov (Rodentia: Castoridae) in the Azas River (Tuva Republic, Russia)
ANDRE V. BOCHKOV & ALEXANDER P. SAVELJEV (Russia)
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Article
Zootaxa 3406: 59–66 (1 Aug. 2012) 5 plates; 13 references                       Accepted: 5 Jun. 2012
New picobiin mites (Acari: Syringophilidae: Picobiinae) associated with woodcreeper birds (Passeriformes: Dendrocolaptidae)
MACIEJ SKORACKI& PIOTR SOLARCZYK (Poland)
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Article
Zootaxa 3393: 41–52 (19 Jul. 2012) 8 plates; 13 references                     Accepted: 25 May 2012
Larval morphology of Atractides ildensis Tuzovskij, 2005, A. moniezi (Motaş, 1927), and A. graecus Viets, 1950 (Acari: Hydrachnidia: Hygrobatidae)
PETR V. TUZOVSKIJ (Russia)
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Erratum 
Zootaxa 3358: 68 (27 May 2012)
MICHAEL J. SKVARLA1 & ASHLEY P. G. DOWLING (2012) Some new armascirine cunaxids (Acari: Prostigmata: Cunaxidae) from the Eastern United States . Zootaxa, 3194, 1–34
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Article
Zootaxa 3356: 57–64 (25 Jun 2012) 1 plate; 39 references                  Accepted: 2 May 2012
A new species of Neoseiulus Hughes, with records of seven species of predatory mites associated with date palm in Saudi Arabia (Acari: Phytoseiidae)
MOHAMED W. NEGM, FAHAD J. ALATAWI & YOUSIF N. ALDRYHIM (Saudi Arabia)
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Article
Zootaxa 3352: 1–16 (20 Jun. 2012) 8 plates; 35 references                  Accepted: 3 May 2012
Redescription and neotype designation of Lobogynium sudhiri (Datta) (Acari: Diplogyniidae), a mite associated with beetles of the genus Atholus (Thomson) (Coleoptera: Histeridae) in the Palaearctic region
MASSIMO PLUMARI (Italy) & SHAHROOZ KAZEMI (Iran)
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Article
Zootaxa 3350: 46–57 (19 Jun. 2012) 9 plates; 6 references                  Accepted: 1 May 2012
Second contribution to the knowledge of water mites of the genus Monatractides K. Viets (Acari: Hydrachnidia, Torrenticolidae) from New Guinea, with descriptions of three new species
VLADIMIR PEŠIĆ (Montenegro) & HARRY SMIT (The Netherlands)
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Article
Zootaxa 3335: 1–28 (6 Jun. 2012) 14 plates; 11 references                  Accepted: 21 Dec. 2011
Revision of the genera Interrhodeus, Pennarhodeus and Poropodalius (Acari: Rhodacaridae)
RAPHAEL C. CASTILHO (Brazil), GILBERTO J. DE MORAES (BRAZIL) 
& BRUCE HALLIDAY (Australia)
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Monograph
Zootaxa 3330: 1–67 (30 May 2012) 47 plates; 42 references                      Accepted: 23 Apr. 2012   
Water mites delineating the Oriental and Palaearctic regions—the unique fauna of southern Iran, with description of one new genus, one new subgenus and 14 new species (Acari: Hydrachnidia)
VLADIMIR PEŠIĆ, HARRY SMIT & ALIREZA SABOORI
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Article
Zootaxa 3309: 62–67 (11 May 2012) 7 plates; 12 references                  Accepted: 12 Apr. 2012
The genus Albia Thon from Australia, with the description of two new species (Acari: Hydrachidia: Aturidae)
HARRY SMIT (The Netherlands)
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Article
Zootaxa 3304: 1–24 (8 May 2012) 12 plates; 39 references                  Accepted: 22 Mar. 2012
Spinibdella Thor (Acari: Bdellidae) from southern Africa: descriptions of five new species and the redescription of S. thori (Meyer & Ryke)
ELIZABETH OMUKUNDA (Kenya), PIETER D THERON (South Africa) 
& E A UECKERMANN (South Africa)
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Erratum 
Zootaxa 3302: 68 (7 May 2012)
Erratum: Khanjani, M., Yazyanpanah, S., Ostovan, H. & Fayaz, B.A. (2012) Three new species of the genus Tycherobius Bolland (Acari: Camerobiidae) from Iran. Zootaxa 3266: 23–40
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Article
Zootaxa 3302: 44–60 (7 May 2012) 7 plates; 50 references                  Accepted: 22 Mar. 2012
The genus Cultroribula (Acari: Oribatida: Astegistidae) in Mongolia, with new findings from Altai Mountains and remarks on known species of the world
BADAMDORJ BAYARTOGTOKH (Mongolia)
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Article
Zootaxa 3301: 1–33 (4 May 2012) 22 plates; 30 references                   Accepted: 21 Mar. 2012
First record of the littoral genus Alismobates (Acari: Oribatida) from the Atlantic ocean, with a redefinition of the family Fortuyniidae based on adult and juvenile morphology
TOBIAS PFINGSTL (Bermuda) & REINHART SCHUSTER (Austria)
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Article
Zootaxa 3297: 41–56 (2 May 2012) 8 plates; 19 references                  Accepted: 5 Apr. 2012
Three new false spider mites of the genus Pseudoleptus Bruyant (Acari: Tenuipalpidae) from Iran
MASOUMEH KHANJANI (Iran), MOHAMMAD KHANJANI (Iran), ALIREZA SABOORI (Iran) 
& OWEN D. SEEMAN (Australia)
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3295: 65–68 (1 May 2012) 0 plate; 18 references                  Accepted: 10 Apr. 2012
Systematic revision of the genus Maudheimia Dalenius, 1958 (Acari: Oribatida)
LOUISE COETZEE (South Africa) & GERD WEIGMANN (Germany)
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Article
Zootaxa 3295: 30–58 (1 May 2012) 18 plates; 21 references                  Accepted: 2 Apr. 2012
The false spider mites of the genera Aegyptobia Sayed and Phytoptipalpus Trägårdh (Acari: Tenuipalpidae) from Iran
MASOUMEH KHANJANI (Iran), MOHAMMAD KHANJANI (Iran) 
& OWEN D. SEEMAN (Australia)
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Monograph
Zootaxa 3292: 1–71 (30 Apr. 2012) 17 plates; 109 references                 Accepted: 16 Jan. 2012   
Eriophyoid mite fauna of Shaanxi Province, China, with descriptions of five new species (Acari: Eriophyoidea)
XIAO-FENG XUE, XIAO HAN, ZI-WEI SONG & XIAO-YUE HONG
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Article
Zootaxa 3269: 18–30 (16 Apr. 2012) 8 plates; 24 references                  Accepted:17 Feb. 2012
New records of Copidognathus mites (Acari: Halacaridae) from mangroves in Brunei Darussalam with descriptions of two new species 
TAPAS CHATTERJEE (India), DAVID J MARSHALL (Brunei) & VLADIMIR PEŠIĆ (Montenegro)
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Article
Zootaxa 3266: 23–40 (11 Apr. 2012) 9 plates; 19 references                  Accepted: 2 Mar. 2012
Three new species of the genus Tycherobius Bolland (Acari: Camerobiidae) from Iran 
MOHAMMAD KHANJANI, SHIMA YAZYANPANAH, HADI OSTOVAN 
& BAHMAN ASALI FAYAZ (Iran)
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Article
Zootaxa 3265: 22–42 (10 Apr. 2012) 12 plates; 57 references                  Accepted: 9 Mar. 2012
New Neotropical cunaxine species (Acari: Prostigmata: Cunaxidae) 
JACOB DEN HEYER & TATIANE MARIE MARTINS GOMES DE CASTRO (Brazil)
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Article 
Zootaxa 3253: 54–61 (2 Apr. 2012) 3 plates; 24 references                  Accepted: 17 Jan. 2012
A new feather mite species of the genus Proctophyllodes Robin, 1877 (Astigmata: Proctophyllodidae) from the Long-tailed Tit Aegithalos caudatus (Passeriformes: Aegithalidae)—morphological description with DNA barcode data 
SERGEY V. MIRONOV (Russia), JACEK DABERT (Poland) & MIROSLAWA DABERT (Poland)
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Article 
Zootaxa 3249: 1–17 (28 Mar. 2012) 11 plates; 40 references                  Accepted: 9 Feb. 2012
Water mites of the genus Ljania Thor, 1898 (Acari: Hydrachnidia: Aturidae) in Russia 
PETR V. TUZOVSKIJ (Russia)
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Article 
Zootaxa 3248: 35–42 (27 Mar. 2012) 2 plates; 28 references                  Accepted: 7 Feb. 2012
Two new species of Rhodacaridae (Mesostigmata: Rhodacaroidea) from Iran 
RAPHAEL C. CASTILHO (Brazil), MAHDI JALAEIAN (Iran) & GILBERTO J. DE MORAES (Brazil)
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Article 
Zootaxa 3248: 1–24 (27 Mar. 2012) 14 plates; 14 references                  Accepted: 1 Feb. 2012
Water mites of the genus Monatractides (Acari: Hydrachnidia, Torrenticolidae) from Australia, with descriptions of four new species 
VLADIMIR PEŠIĆ (Montenegro) & HARRY SMIT (The Netherland)
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Article 
Zootaxa 3243: 29–51 (22 Mar. 2012) 13 plates; 39 references                  Accepted: 24 Jan. 2012
The oribatid mite genus Nothrus Koch, 1836 (Acari: Oribatida: Nothridae) of South Africa, including a key to African species 
SERGEY G. ERMILOV (Russia) & ELIZABETH A. HUGO-COETZEE (South Africa)
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Article 
Zootaxa 3224: 57–61 (7 Mar. 2012) 1 plate; 14 references                  Accepted: 16 Jan. 2012
Picobia dziabaszewskii sp. nov. (Acari, Syringophilidae)—combined description (morphology with DNA barcode data) of a new quill mite species parasitizing Garrulax formosus (Passeriformes: Leiothrichidae) 
ELIZA GLOWSKA, ANNA DRAGUN-DAMIAN & JACEK DABERT (Poland)
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Article 
Zootaxa 3224: 1–40 (7 Mar. 2012) 29 plates; 37 references                  Accepted: 4 Feb. 2012
Morphology of juvenile instars of Ameronothridae (Acari: Oribatida) 
SERGEY G. ERMILOV (Russia), JOSEF STARY (Czech Republic) & WILLIAM BLOCK (UK)
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Article 
Zootaxa 3221: 60–68 (5 Mar. 2012) 3 plates; 7 references                  Accepted: 8 Feb. 2012
A contribution to the knowledge of the genus Atractides Koch, 1837 (Acari: Hydrachnidia, Hygrobatidae) in France 
VLADIMIR PEŠIĆ (Montenegro), HARRY SMIT (The Netherlands) & REINHARD GERECKE(Germany)
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Monograph
Zootaxa 3216: 1–104 (29 Feb. 2012) 66 plates; 165 references                 Accepted: 25 Nov. 2011   
CHIGGER MITES (ACARI: TROMBICULIDAE) OF TURKEY
ALEXANDR STEKOLNIKOV & MILAN DANIEL
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Article 
Zootaxa 3210: 26–38 (28 Feb. 2012) 8 plates; 23 references                  Accepted: 30 Jan. 2012
New Uropodina (Acari: Mesostigmata) from California, USA 
JENŐ KONTSCHÁN (Hungary) & JOSEF STARÝ (Czech Republic)
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Article 
Zootaxa 3208: 27–40 (27 Feb. 2012) 1 plates; 63 references                     Accepted: 16 Jan. 2012
Oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) of Ethiopia 
SERGEY G. ERMILOV, EKATERINA A. SIDORCHUK & LEONID B. RYBALOV (Russia)
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Article 
Zootaxa 3205: 53–62 (24 Feb. 2012) 4 plates; 22 references                     Accepted: 21 Dec. 2011
Two new species of Abrolophus (Acari: Erythraeidae) from Montenegro 
ALIREZA SABOORI (Iran), MILOJE ŠUNDIĆ (Montenegro), VLADIMIR PEŠIĆ (Montenegro) & MASOUD HAKIMITABAR (Iran)
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