TWO NEW WATER MITE SPECIES OF THE GENUS NEUMANIA LEBERT (ACARIFORMES, HYDRACHNIDIA, UNIONICOLIDAE) FROM VIETNAM

About author:

Petr V. Tuzovsky,

Papanin Institute for Biology of Inland Waters, Russian Academy of Sciences, Borok, Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia
e-mail: tuz@ibiw.yaroslavl.ru

Annotation:

An illustrated description of two new water mite species, Neumania disetoides sp. nov. (female, male, deutonymph) and N. vietnamica sp. nov. (female, male), from the standing waters of Vietnam are presented.

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