NEW DATA ON MITES OF THE GENUS LASIOSEIUS (MESOSTIGMATA, ASCIDAE) IN INDIA ALONGWITH THE DESCRIPTION OF TWO NEW SPECIES

About authors:

А.К. Bhattacharyya, Desert Regional Station, Zoological Survey of India, Jhalamand, Pali Road, Jodhpur 342 005, Rajasthan, India
А.К. Sanyal, Zoological Survey of India, М- Block, New Alipore, Kolkata 700 053, India;

Acknowledgments:

We are grateful to the Director, Zoological Survey of India, for his kind permission to use the library and laboratory facilities. Helps extended to us by Dr. Qaiser H. Baqri, and Mr. Vijay K. Bangar-iya of Desert Regional Station, Zoological Survey of India, Jodhpur are also gratefully acknowledged. Thanks are also due to Dr. Sisir K. Bhattacharyya, Additional Director (Retd.), Zoological Survey of India, for his critical remarks and improvement of the manuscript.

 

Annotation:

Two new species of the genus Lasioseius: L. triangularis sp.n., L. punjabensis sp.n. are de-scribed from India. Description of male of L. retic-ulatus of which only females from West Bengal has been known is presented.

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