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New species of Near Eastern agamid scale-mites (Acarina, Pterygosomidae) with notes on the developmental stages of Geckobia hemidactyli Law., 1936

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

K. M. Jack
K. M. Jack
Affiliation:
2 Derwent Close, Gossops Green, Crawley, Sussex
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The following new species are described:

Pterygosoma sinaita sp.nov. (♀, ♂ nymph) off Agama sinaita, A. mutabilis and A. inermis.

P. adramitana sp.nov. (♀, ♂) off A. adramitana.

P. mutabilis sp.nov. (♀, ♂ nymph) off A. mutabilis, A. pallida, A. jayakari and A. inermis.

P. singularis sp.nov. (♀) off A. colonorum.

P. caucasica sp.nov. (♀, ♂ deutonymph, protonymph and larva) off A. caucasica.

P. foliosetis sp.nov. (♀, nymph) off Charasia dorsalis.

Descriptions are also included of the hitherto unrecorded male, nymph and larva of Geckobia hemidactylus Lawrence, 1936, from Hemidactylus mercatorius Gray from Ascension Island.

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Research Article
Information
Parasitology , Volume 51 , Issue 1-2 , May 1961 , pp. 241 - 256
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1961

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