A NEW GENUS AND THREE NEW SPECIES OF THE MITE FAMILY MICRODISPIDAE (ACARI: HETEROSTIGMATA) FROM CRIMEA

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Alexander A. Khaustov, e-mail

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

Annotation:

A new genus, Paramicrodispus gen. nov. (Acari: Microdispidae), and three new species of the genera Premicrodispus Cross, 1965 and Dolichodispus Khaustov, 2006 are described from Crimea: P. karadagensis sp. n., P. acutisetus sp. n., and Dolichodispus rarus sp. n., Paramicrodispus crenulatus (Savulkina, 1978) comb. nov. is redescribed.

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