A NEW SPECIES OF WATER MITES OF THE GENUS TORRENTICOLA PIERSIG, 1896 (ACARIFORMES, TORRENTICOLIDAE) FROM RUSSIA

About author:

Papanin Institute for Biology of Inland Waters, Russian Academy of Sciences, Borok, Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia
e-mail: tuz@ibiw.yaroslavl.ru

Acknowledgments:

The present research was supported by the Russian Fund for Basic Research, grant 03-04-49081. The author expresses profound gratitude to T.S. Vshivkova for collecting the material.

Annotation:

An illustrated description of deutonymph, fe-male and male of a new species Torrenticola recen-tis from running waters of Primorsk Territory of Russia is given.

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