OBSERVATIONS ON THE LISTROPHORID (ACARI: LISTROPHORIDAE) FAUNA OF PAKISTAN

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

Barry M. OConnor, e-mail

Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

Acknowledgments:

We thank Drs. Philip Myers (UMMZ) and Steven Goodman (FMNH), who provided access to the host specimens examined in this study. This research was supported by a grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation DEB–0118766 (PEET) to BMOC.

Abstract:

Two fur mite (Acari: Listrophoridae) taxa from Pakistan, a new species Aeromychirus fimbriatus sp.n. ex Hylopetes fimbriatus (Gray, 1837) (Sciuridae) and Spalacarus mediolineatus nesokia Fain et Hyland, 1980 ex Nesokia indica (Gray et Hard-wicke, 1830) (Muridae), are described and rede-scribed, respectively.

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