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Issue: Vol. 5336 No. 2: 22 Aug. 2023
Type: Article
Published: 2023-08-22
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5336.2.8
Page range: 271-280
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A new species of Zercoseius (Acari: Mesostigmata: Blattisociidae) from Brazil

Researcher; Ontario; Canada
Escola Superior de Agricultura “Luiz de Queiroz” (ESALQ); Universidade de São Paulo (USP); 13418-900 Piracicaba; São Paulo; Brazil
Escola Superior de Agricultura “Luiz de Queiroz” (ESALQ); Universidade de São Paulo (USP); 13418-900 Piracicaba; São Paulo; Brazil; CNPq researcher
Acari Edaphic mite Gamasina Phytoseioidea taxonomy

Abstract

Zercoseius luizdequeirozi n. sp. is described based on adult females collected from soil/litter samples taken from disturbed areas of the natural vegetation of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest biome. This new species differs from Zercoseius spathuliger (Leonardi, 1899), presently the only species included in this genus, reported so far from Europe, northern Africa and northwestern USA, more obviously by the shape of the dorsal shield setae and by having seta s1.

 

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