Two new water mite species of the genus Hygrobates Koch, 1837 (Acari, Hydrachnidia, Hygrobatidae) from the Samarskaya Oblast (Russia)

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

Acknowledgments:

This research was performed in the framework of the state assignment No. 0122-2014-0007 (Federal Agency of Scientific Organizations [FASO], Russia). The author expresses sincere gratitude to anonymous referees for reviewing the manuscript.

Annotation:

This paper provides an illustrated description of two new water mite species of the genus Hygrobates—Hygrobates (Hygrobates) isakovoensis sp. n. and Hygrobates (Hygrobates) calligeroides sp. n.—from the streams of European Russia.

https://doi.org/10.21684/0132-8077-2023-31-1-123-129

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