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Issue: Vol. 4951 No. 1: 1 Apr. 2021
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2021-04-01
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4951.1.11
Page range: 187–192
Abstract views: 89
PDF downloaded: 11

A new water mite genus from Kazakhstan (Acari, Hydrachnidia, Hydryphantidae)

Papanin Institute for Biology of Inland Waters of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Borok, Yaroslavl Province, 152742, Russia.
Tyumen State University, Tyumen, 625003, Russia.
Acari Hydrachnidia Hydryphantidae

Abstract

This paper describes a new genus of the water mite family Hydryphantidae. The material was collected by V. Stolbov in 2019 in running waters in Kazakhstan. The material was sampled with a common hand net with 250 µm mesh size. The water mites were fixed in 75% ethanol.

 

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