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Published: 2008-09-12
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A new chigger mite (Acari: Prostigmata: Trombiculidae) from Central Europe

Institute of Zoology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská cesta 9, SK-845 06, Bratislava, Slovakia
Acari chigger new species pannonica Slovakia

Abstract

A new chigger mite Kayella pannonica sp. n. (Acari: Prostigmata, Trombiculidae) is described from thermophilous oakhawthorn forest of SW Slovakia.

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