<strong>Three new species of myrmecophilous scutacarid mites (Acari: Scutacaridae) from Western Siberia, Russia</strong>

ALEXANDER A. KHAUSTOV

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4013.2.7

Issue: Vol. 4013 No. 2: 8 Sept. 2015

Type: Article

Published: 2015-09-08

DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4013.2.7

Page range: 265–279

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Three new species of myrmecophilous scutacarid mites (Acari: Scutacaridae) from Western Siberia, Russia

ALEXANDER A. KHAUSTOV⁺⁻

Tyumen State University, Tyumen, 10 Semakova Str., 625003 Russia.

Acari Heterostigmata Pygmephoroidea Scutacarus systematics ants phoresy Palaearctic

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Abstract

Three new species of myrmecophilous mites of the genus Scutacarus Gros, 1845 (Acariformes: Pygmephoroidea: Scutacaridae), S. lasiophilus sp. nov., S. myrmicinus sp. nov., and S. crinitus sp. nov. are described from ants and their nests in Tyumen Province, Western Siberia, Russia.