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Issue: Vol. 2525 No. 1: 2 Jul. 2010
Type: Articles
Published: 2010-07-02
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2525.1.4
Page range: 63–68
Abstract views: 42
PDF downloaded: 1

Bloszykiella africana gen. nov., sp. nov., a new mite genus from East Africa (Acari: Mesostigmata: Uropodidae)

Systematic Zoology Research Group, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Department of Zoology, Hungarian Natural History Museum, H-1088 Budapest, Baross u. 13. Hungary
Acari Uropodina new genus new species taxonomy Tanzania

Abstract

A new monotypic genus, Bloszykiella africana gen. nov., sp. nov. (Mesostigmata: Uropodina: Uropodidae) is described on the basis of two females and one deutonymph found in soil samples from Tanzania. The new genus is unusual among Uropodina in having large strongly dentate chelicerae.

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