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Two new peculiar ptyctimous mites ( A cari: O ribatida: Phthiracaridae) from the A ustralian region, with a key to 54 described species of N otophthiracarus R amsay in A ustralia
Author(s) -
Liu Dong,
Zhang ZhiQiang
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
austral entomology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.502
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 2052-1758
pISSN - 2052-174X
DOI - 10.1111/aen.12066
Subject(s) - oribatida , acari , key (lock) , biology , ecology , zoology , systematics , taxonomy (biology)
Two new species of ptyctimous mites ( O ribatida: P hthiracaridae), A ustrophthiracarus hiore sp. nov. from N ew Z ealand and N otophthiracarus biputeus sp. nov. from A ustralia, are described and illustrated. Both new species have peculiar structural modification of the notogaster, which rarely occur in ptyctimous mites. A key to all known species of N otophthiracarus in A ustralia is also provided.