TWO NEW SPECIES OF WATER MITES OF THE GENUS SPERCHON KRAMER (ACARIFORMES, SPERCHONTIDAE) FROM CENTRAL ASIA

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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 is supported by the Rus-sian Fund for Basic Research, grant 03-04-49081.

Annotation:

A description of two new species of water mites, Sperchon asiciticus (female) and Sperchon minor (male) from the mountain stream in the vicinities of Bishkek city (Kyrgyzstan) is given.

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