ORIBATID MITES (ACARI, ORIBATEI) FOUND ON BRANCHES OF ARAUCARIA-ANGUSTIFOLIA IN BRAZIL

Authors
PEREZINIGO C PEREZINIGO C
Citation
C. Perezinigo et C. Perezinigo, ORIBATID MITES (ACARI, ORIBATEI) FOUND ON BRANCHES OF ARAUCARIA-ANGUSTIFOLIA IN BRAZIL, Acarologia, 34(2), 1993, pp. 167-176
Citations number
NO
Categorie Soggetti
Entomology
Journal title
Acarologia → ACNP
ISSN journal
0044586X
Volume
34
Issue
2
Year of publication
1993
Pages
167 - 176
Database
ISI
SICI code
0044-586X(1993)34:2<167:OM(OFO>2.0.ZU;2-A
Abstract
Five new species and a new subspecies of oribatid mites obtained from branches of Araucaria angustifolia at 10 m above the ground level in S anta Catarina State (Brazil) are described. These species are the foll owing : Humerobates flechtmanni n.sp., Galumna mystax n.sp., Oripoda a raucariae n.sp., Ceratozetes catarinensis n.sp. and Trichoribates serr atus n.sp. ; the new subspecies is Dometorina plantivaga brasiliana n. subsp., A cosmopolitan arboreal oribatid mite, Camisia segnis (HERMANN , 1804), has been also found.