Publication Date:
2024-05-16
Description:
New records of rare water mites mostly from interstitial habitat of New Zealand are
presented. One new genus, Zelandostygolimnochares n. gen. (Piersigiidae) with the
type species Z. curtipalpis n. sp. is described. Zelandobates occidentalis Smit & Pešić,
2020 is synonymized with Z. tongariro Smit & Pešić, 2020. The male is for the first
time described for Zelandotonia orion Cook, 1992, and the female is for the first time
described for Aciculacarus amalis Cook, 1983. New records of a number of rare species
are presented.
Keywords:
new species; taxonomy; hyporheic mites; new records; New Zealand
Repository Name:
National Museum of Natural History, Netherlands
Type:
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Format:
application/pdf