Title: Myrmecophilous pygmephoroid mites (Acari: Pygmephoroidea) associated with<i>Lasius fuliginosus</i>(Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Western Siberia, Russia
Abstract: Eleven species of pygmephoroid mites (Acari: Pygmephoroidea: Neopygmephoridae, Scutacaridae, Microdispidae) are recorded from the ant Lasius fuliginosus (Latreille, 1798) from Western Siberia, Russia. Two of them, Petalomium fuliginosum sp. nov. (Acari: Neopygmephoridae) and Imparipes fuliginosophilus sp. nov. (Acari: Scutacaridae) are described as new for science. Unguidispus contematosus Sevastianov, 1981 (Acari: Microdispidae) is recorded for the first time from Russia and redescribed. Imparipes sevastianovi Khaustov, 2008, Imparipes brevibasis (Sevastianov, 1983) and Scutacarus flexisetus Karafiat, 1959 arte also recorded for the first time from Russia.
Publication Year: 2015
Publication Date: 2015-12-10
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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