A new water mite species of the genus Arrenurus Dugès, 1834 (Acari, Hydrachnidia: Arrenuridae) from European Russia

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33910/2686-9519-2023-15-2-226-230

Keywords:

Hydrachnidia, Arrenuridae, Arrenurus, water mites, morphology, male

Abstract

An illustrated description of a new species Arrenurus pogorelkaensis sp. nov. from Yaroslavsky Region of Russia is given. Color red, cauda well developed, petiole very small without ligulate process, pentagonal, not extending beyond idiosoma posterior margin, hyaline membrane absent.

References

Gerecke, R., Gledhill, T., Pešić, V., Smit, H. (2016) 8. Acari: Hydrachnidia III. In: R. Gerecke (ed.). Sϋβwasserfauna von Mitteleuropa, 7/2-3. Berlin; Heidelberg: Springer Verlag, pp. 1–429. (In England)

Tuzovskij, P. V. (1987) Morfologiya i postembrional’noe razvitiye vodyanykh kleshchej [Morphology and Postembryonic Development in Water Mites]. Moscow: Nauka Publ., 172 p. (In Russian)

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2023-04-11

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