DESCRIPTION OF TWO NEW WATER MITE SPECIES OF THE GENUS ATRACTIDES KOCH, 1837 (ACARI, HYDRACHNIDIA, HYGROBATIDAE) FROM 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 state assignment № 0122-2014-0007 (Federal Agency of Scientific Organizations [FASO], Russia). 

The author expresses his sincere gratitude to V. A. Stolbov, N. M. Yavorskaya, V. V. Kharitonov and V. A. Galagan for collecting the material; to Dr. K. Semenchenko for the material supplied; and to the anonymous referees for reviewing the manuscript.

Annotation:

This paper provides an illustrated description of two water mite species of the genus Atractides—Atractides (Atractides) arzanensis sp. n. and Atractides (Atractides) teneroides sp. n.—from the running waters of Russia.

DOI: 10.21684/0132-8077-2023-31-2-275-282

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