来自南非的与三叉白蚁（等翅目：白蚁科）相关的盾甲螨科（蜱螨亚纲：异气门亚目）一新属。
A new genus of the mite family Scutacaridae (Acari: Heterostigmata) associated with Trinervitermes trinervoides (Isoptera: Termitidae) from South Africa.
作者信息
Khaustov Alexander A, Hugo-Coetzee Elizabeth A, Ermilov Sergey G
机构信息
Tyumen State University, Tyumen, Russia..
出版信息
Zootaxa. 2017 May 2;4258(5):462-476. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4258.5.4.
PMID:28609906
Abstract
A new monotypic genus of scutacarid mites, Gerdalbertia gen. nov. (Acari: Pygmephoroidea: Scutacaridae), with type species G. elongata sp. nov. is described from nests of and phoretic on termites, Trinervitermes trinervoides (Sjostedt, 1911) (Isoptera: Termitidae), from South Africa. The taxonomic position of the new genus is discussed.
摘要
描述了盾甲螨科一个新的单型属——格氏甲螨属（Gerdalbertia gen. nov.）（蜱螨亚纲：矮螨总科：盾甲螨科），其模式种为长形格氏甲螨（G. elongata sp. nov.）。该螨发现于南非的三叉白蚁（Trinervitermes trinervoides (Sjostedt, 1911)）（等翅目：白蚁科）巢中，并能在其体表携带。文中讨论了该新属的分类地位。
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