Published March 5, 2018 | Version v1
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Macrochelidae Vitzthum

Description

Family Macrochelidae Vitzthum

One genus Holostaspella and two species H. bifoliata and Macrocheles mammifer are reported for the first time from SA. Previously, five species have been reported from SA (Table 1) of which two species namely M. muscaedomesticae and M. merdarius were also collected in the current study.

Notes

Published as part of Alatawi, Fahad Jaber, Kamran, Muhammad & Mirza, Jawwad Hassan, 2018, Mesostigmatic mites (Acari: Mesostigmata) of Saudi Arabia (excluding Phytoseioidea), new records and a key to the known species, pp. 373-394 in Zootaxa 4388 (3) on page 380, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4388.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/1188674

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Biodiversity

Family
Macrochelidae
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Mesostigmata
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Vitzthum
Taxon rank
family