A NEW SPECIES AND RECORDS OF MITES OF THE GENUS PARAPYGMEPHORUS (ACARI: HETEROSTIGMATA: NEOPYGMEPHORIDAE) FROM UKRAINE

About authors:

Alexander A. Khaustov,  e-mail

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

Zaloznaya L.M., I.I. Schmalgausen Institute of Zoology NASU, B. Khmelnitsky str. 15, Kiev, 01601 Ukraine

Annotation:

A new species, Parapygmephorus magnisetosus sp. n. (Acari: Neopygmephoridae), is described from the bees Halictus sexcinctus (Fabricius, 1775) and Osmia rufa (Linnaeus, 1758) (Hymenoptera: Halictidae and Megachilidae) from Ukraine. Parapygmephorus khorasanicus Hajiqanbar et Khaustov, 2011 is recorded for the first time for the Europe.

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