Description of a new water mite species of the genus Limnesia Koch, 1836 (Acari, Hydrachnidae: Limnesiidae) from Mongolia
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https://doi.org/10.33910/2686-9519-2021-13-4-467-470Keywords:
Hydrachnidia, Limnesiidae, Limnesia, water mites, morphology, maleAbstract
An illustrated description of male of a new species Limnesia mongolica sp. nov. from Dergun reservoir of Mongolia is given. The genital field with three pairs of small acetabula, distance between ac.1 and ac.2 two to three times larger than length of any acetabulum, distance between ac.2 and ac.3 equal or larger than length of any acetabulum; P-4 distally strongly curved, with two simple ventral setae near middle of segment.
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Tuzovskij, P. V. (1990) Opredelitel’ dejtonimf vodyanykh kleshchej [Key to water mites deutonymphs]. Moscow: Nauka Publ., 238 p. (In Russian)
Tuzovskij, P. V. (1997) Vodyanye kleshchi roda Limnesia (Acariformes, Limnesiidae) fauny Rossii [Water mites of the genus Limnesia (Acariformes, Limnesiidae) in the fauna of Russia]. Tolyatti: Institute of Ecology of the Volga basin of Russian Academy of Sciences Publ., 89 p. (In Russian)
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