TWO NEW SPECIES OF MITES OF THE SUPERFAMILY PYGMEPHOROIDEA (ACARI: HETEROSTIGMATA: PYGMEPHORIDAE, NEOPYGMEPHORIDAE) FROM THE EUROPEAN PART OF RUSSIA

About authors:

Alexander A. Khaustov, e-mail

X-BIO Institute, University of Tyumen, Tyumen, Russia

Sergey G. Ermilov, e-mail

X-BIO Institute, Tyumen State University, Tyumen, Russia

Abstract:

Two new species of pygmephoroid mites (Acari: Pygmephoroidea): Pediculaster chistyakovi sp. n. (Pygmephoridae) and Allopygmephorus bakaninae sp. n. (Neopygmephoridae) are described from the soil of the European part of Russia.

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