TWO NEW SPECIES OF CHIGGER MITES (ACARI: TROMBICULIDAE) CLOSE TO NEOTROMBICULA MINUTA, APPLICATION OF NONLINEAR MULTIVARIATE STATISTICS

About author:

Alexandr A. Stekolnikov,

 Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia
e-mail: Alexandr.Stekolnikov@zin.ru

Annotation:

Two new species of chigger mites, Neotrombicula urartensis sp. n. from rodents and birds and N. kubanensis sp. n. from rodents, are described from Caucasus. Morphological discontinuity of Neotrombicula urartensis and N. scrupulosa was demonstrated using logistic regression analysis.

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