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A NEW GENUS AND A NEW SPECIES OF THE FAMILY PYGMEPHORIDAE (ACARI: HETEROSTIGMATA) FROM WESTERN SIBERIA, RUSSIA

Alexander A. Khaustov

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Phoretic and non-phoretic females of a new genus and a new species of pygmephorid mites—Bochkovlaster variabilis gen. n. and sp. n. (Acari: Prostigmata: Pygmephoridae), collected from rotting birch trees—are described from Western Siberia, Russia. An updated key to the genera of Pygmephoridae is provided.

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Phoretic and non-phoretic females of a new genus and a new species of pygmephorid mites—Bochkovlaster variabilis gen. n. and sp. n. (Acari: Prostigmata: Pygmephoridae), collected from rotting birch trees—are described from Western Siberia, Russia. An updated key to the genera of Pygmephoridae is provided.

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Phoretic and non-phoretic females of a new genus and a new species of pygmephorid mites—Bochkovlaster variabilis gen. n. and sp. n. (Acari: Prostigmata: Pygmephoridae), collected from rotting birch trees—are described from Western Siberia, Russia. An updated key to the genera of Pygmephoridae is provided.

Key concepts: Acari, Prostigmata, Genus, Key (lock), Biology, Zoology, Ecology

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