New records of water mites from Southeast Asia (Acari: Hydrachnidia) with the description of two new genera and 12 new species

Nine species of water mites (Acari, Hydrachnidia) were collected in 2017 from two rivers in Sri Lanka. One genus, i.e. Srilankurus, and four species, i.e Atractides biesiadkai, Axonopsis srilankensis, Brachypodopsis mirkae and Srilankurus biprojectus are described as new for science; Monatractides pinapalpis (Cook, 1967), a species so far known from India only, is reported as new for the fauna of Sri Lanka. The number of water mites known from Sri Lanka now tallies 60 species.

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<p class="Body">First records of water mites from Bangladesh (Acari, Hydrachnidia) with the description of two new species

Pešić

Hossain

Chatterjee³

et al. 2018

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New records of water mites from Southeast Asia (Acari: Hydrachnidia) with the description of two new genera and 12 new species

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New records of water mites from Sri Lanka (Acari: Hydrachnidia) with the description of four new species

<p class="Body">First records of water mites from Bangladesh (Acari, Hydrachnidia) with the description of two new species

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