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16 January 2019 New records of water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) from the Western Himalaya with the description of four new species
Vladimir Pešić, Harry Smit, Pankaj Bahuguna
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Abstract

New records of water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) from the Uttarakhand State of India are presented. Four species, i.e. Torrenticola uttarakhandensis, T. chatterjeei (Torrenticolidae), Atractides indicus and Hygrobates dobriyali (Hygrobatidae) are described as new to science. The first description of the female and deutonymph of Sperchon indicusKumar, Kumar & Pešić, 2007 is given. Atractides cf. incertusLundblad, 1969 is reported as new for the fauna of India.

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Vladimir Pešić, Harry Smit, and Pankaj Bahuguna "New records of water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) from the Western Himalaya with the description of four new species," Systematic and Applied Acarology 24(1), 59-80, (16 January 2019). https://doi.org/10.11158/saa.24.1.5
Received: 20 November 2018; Accepted: 17 December 2018; Published: 16 January 2019
KEYWORDS
Acari
Himalayas
Hydrachnidia
new records
new species
running waters
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