VASATES MILEVSKII SP.N. (ACARI, TETRAPODILI), A NEW FREE-LIVING MITE FROM BETULA PUBESCENS EHRH.

About authors:

V.G. Shevchenko, Biological Research Institute of St. Petersburg University, St. Petersburg, Old Petergof, 198904 Russia
I.G.Shaudvitene, Reservation "Kivach", Karelia, Russia 186200

Acknowledgments:

This work was made possible by the support of the Academy's founda-tion "Biological Diversity". The measurements were carried out by I.G.Shaudvitene together with I.G.Bagnjuk and S.I.Sukhareva.

Annotation:

Five species of free-living four-legged mites have been known from different Nearctic and Palearctic birches. A new species, Vasates milevskii, is described from leaves of Betula pubescens. The name of species is dedicated to the memory of V. B.Milevsky, who worked as a driver in the laboratory of Plant Acarology (in Biological Research Institute) and in the Kivach Reservation.

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