THREE NEW CHEYLETID SPECIES (ACARI: CHEYLETIDAE) FROM THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ENTOMOLOGICAL COLLECTION, USA

About authors:

Bochkov A. V. , Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya emb. 1, 199034 St. Petersburg, Russia. Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, 1109 Geddes Ave., Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA

R. Ochoa, Systematic Entomology Laboratory USDA-ARS, 10300 Baltimore Ave., Beltsville, Maryland 20705, USA

Acknowledgments:

This research was supported by a grant from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFFI N 03–04–49072) by AVB.We are grateful to Drs. Michael Pogue, Douglass Miller, and Greg Evans, United States Department of Agriculture, USA for their critical reviews and helpful suggestions.

Annotation:

Three new species of the family Cheyletidae (Acari: Prostigmata), Mexecheles shiva sp.n. from India (Bombay), Alliea chimaera sp.n. from Aus-tralia (Queensland), and Neocheyletiella ardeola sp.n. collected on Ardeolla ralloides (Scopoli, 1769) (Ciconiiformes: Ardeidae) from Mozam-bique, are described and illustrated.

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