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Type: Article
Published: 2014-02-24
Page range: 43–58
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Two new species of Digamasellidae from Taiwan (Acari: Mesostigmata)

Chinese Base for Control and Prevention of Plague and Brucellosis, Baicheng, Jilin, China.
Retired scholar, Taiwan.
Department of Environmental Engineering and Management, Chaoyang University of Technology, Taichung County 41349, Taiwan.
Dendroseius Dendrolaelaps diagnose key to species

Abstract

This paper reports the occurrence of two new species of Digamasellidae from Taiwan, Dendroseius vulgaris n. sp. and Dendrolaelaps (Foveodendrolaelaps) linjianzheni n. sp. Dendroseius vulgaris is described based on the morphology of adult females, adult males and deutonymph, and D. linjianzheni is based on the morphology of adult females and males. This is the first report on the mite species of Digamasellidae from Taiwan.