NEW SPECIES OF THE GENUS NEORIBATES (BERLESE, 1914) (ACARIFORMES: ORIBATIDA) FROM RUSSIA AND ADJACENT COUNTRIES

About authors:

Grishina L.G., Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk

Vladimirova N. V., Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk

Annotation:

The studies on oribatid mites deposited at the Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Department of Entomology of the Moscow Lomonosov State University, Moscow, and the Siberian Zoological Museum of the Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, from territory of the former Soviet Union, have revealed four new species of the genus Neoribates: N. krivolutskyi sp.n., N. borealis sp.n., N. bulanovae sp.n. and N. sibiricus sp.n.

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