A DESCRIPTION OF A NEW GENUS, UMAKEFEQ GEN. N., INCLUDING THREE NEW SPECIES OF MYCETOPHAGOUS ACARID MITES (ACARIFORMES, ACARIDAE) FROM EASTERN PALAEARCTIC

About author:

Pavel B. Klimov,

University of Michigan, Museum of Zoology, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
e-mail: pklimov@purdue.edu

Acknowledgments:

The author is thankful to Drs. G. Lafer (Insti-tute of Biology and Pedology, Vladivostok, Russia) for identification of the coleopteran hosts of the mites and K. Okabe (Forestry and Forest Product Research Institute, Kurokami, Kumamoto, Japan) for interpretation of Japanese label.

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