TOWARD THE SYSTEMATICS OF THE WATER MITE LEBERTIA CONVERGELLA TUZOVSKIJ (ACARIFORMES, LEBERTIIDAE)

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 work was supported by the Rus-sian Foundation for Basic Research, grant 03 - 04 - 49081. The author expresses deep gratitude to Dr. Reinhard Gerecke (Germany) who sent slides of Lebertia elsteri.

Annotation:

The first illustrated description of female and male of the water mite Lebertia convergella from mountain streams of Kamchatka and Magadan-skaya Oblast' of Russia is given.

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