A NEW SPECIES OF MITES OF THE GENUS CUNAXA (ACARINA: PROSTIGMATA: CUNAXIDAE) FROM CRIMEA (UKRAINE)

Journal:

2003. 11 (2)

Publicatione: 

A NEW SPECIES OF MITES OF THE GENUS CUNAXA (ACARINA: PROSTIGMATA: CUNAXIDAE) FROM CRIMEA (UKRAINE)




About author:

Sergeyenko A. L., Nikita Botanical Gardens - National Scientific Center, Yalta, Crimea, 98648

Acknowledgments:

I thank Dr. A. Khaustov and Prof. N. Kuznet-sov for reviewing the manuscript and helpful sug-gestions.


Annotation:

Female, male, tritonymph and deutonymph of Cunaxa dentata sp. n. are described from Crimea. C. bochkovi Khaustov et Kuznetsov, 1998 is re-corded for the first time for Crimea.

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Den Heyer J. 1981. Systematics of the family Cunaxidae Thor, 1902 (Actinedida: Acarida). Pubi. Univer. of the North , ser.A 24: 1-19.

Khaustov A.A., Kuznetsov N.N. 1998. [Four new spe-cies of the genus Cunaxa (Acariformes: Cunaxi-dae)]. Zoologichesky Zhumal, 77: 1332-1341. [in Russian]

Kuznetsov N.N., Livshits I.Z. 1979. [Predatory mites of the Nikita Botanical Gardens (Acariformes: Bdell-idae, Cunaxidae, Camerobiidae)]. Trudy Gosudar-stvennogo Nikitskogo Botanicheskogo Sada, 79: 51-105. [in Russian]