Three new water mite species of the genus Feltria (Acari, Hydrachnidia, Feltriidae) from Asian Russia

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

Acknowledgments:

This research was performed in the framework of a state assignment by the Federal Agency of Scientific Organizations (FASO), Russia (theme No. 0122-2014-0007). The author expresses his sincere gratitude to V. Stolbov, K. Semenchenko and D. Sidorov for sending me the material and to the anonymous referee for reviewing the manuscript.

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