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Issue: Vol. 2555 No. 1: 2 Aug. 2010
Type: Articles
Published: 2010-08-02
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2555.1.1
Page range: 1–29
Abstract views: 34
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New zerconid mites (Acari: Mesostigmata: Zerconidae) from Canada, with a review of the genus Mixozercon Halašková, 1963

University of Alberta, Department of Renewable Resources, Soil Sciences, 2-34 Earth Sciences Building, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2E3 Colegio de Postgraduados, Departamento de Edafología, Km. 36.5 Carretera México-Texcoco Mpio. de Texcoco, Edo. de México C.P.56230
Systematic Zoology Research Group of Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Eotvos Lorand University and Hungarian Natural History Museum, 1088 Budapest, Baross str. 13, Hungary
Acari Zerconidae Mixozercon Boreozercon Canada EMEND project

Abstract

Three new species of the genus Mixozercon Halašková, 1963 (Zerconidae) are described from boreal forest sites of the EMEND experimental site in northwestern Alberta, Canada – M. albertaensis sp. nov., M. jasoniana sp. nov. and M. borealis sp. nov. The new genus Boreozercon gen. nov. is described, with type species B. emendi sp. nov. Short diagnoses and distributional records are given for Mixozercon heterosetosus (Balan 1995), M. sellnicki (Schweizer 1948) and M. stellifer (Aoki 1964). Keys are provided for identification of the known species of Mixozercon and the Nearctic genera of the family Zerconidae.

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