1. A new species of Eutrachytes (Acari: Uropodina: Eutrachytidae) associated with the indian mangrove (Avicennia officinalis)
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María L. Moraza, Z.A. Ansari, Gobardhan Sahoo, Jeno Kontschán, Departamento de Biología Ambiental, Universidad de Navarra [Pamplona] (UNAV), Plant Protection Institute [Budapest] (ATK NOVI), Centre for Agricultural Research [Budapest] (ATK), Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA)-Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA), National Institute of Oceanography (CSIR), and CSIR National Institute of Oceanography [India] (NIO)
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0106 biological sciences ,Avicennia officinalis ,Arthropoda ,Eutrachytidae ,010607 zoology ,India ,Eutrachytes ,Acariformes ,[SDV.BID.SPT]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biodiversity/Systematics, Phylogenetics and taxonomy ,010603 evolutionary biology ,01 natural sciences ,Uropodina ,Genus ,Goa ,Botany ,Arachnida ,Animalia ,Acari ,Flagellate ,Nomenclature ,Taxonomy ,biology ,Biodiversity ,Uropodidae ,biology.organism_classification ,[SDV.BA.ZI]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Animal biology/Invertebrate Zoology ,Insect Science ,Mesostigmata ,Key (lock) ,Taxonomy (biology) - Abstract
International audience; A new species of Eutrachytes (Eutrachytes flagellatus) is described based on a complete ontogenetic series, starting from larva and including the adult female and male. This Uropodina mite was isolated from the pneumatophore surface of Avicennia officinalis having algal (Bostryschia sp.) growth in Goa, India. Notable morphological attributes peculiar to immature instars of this species include a flagellate tubular dorsolateral respiratory structure extending from the peritreme, nude pygidial shields in the adult male and female and a deep concave formation at the posterolateral margins of the dorsal shield. A taxonomic discussion with salient diagnostic features of the genus is given and a key to genera of the family is presented. We present two nomenclature modifications: Deraiophoridae syn. nov. as the junior synonym of Eutrachytidae and Dentibaiulus Hirschmann, 1979 syn. nov. as a junior synonym of Eutrachytes Berlese, 1914. A compiled list of all new species discovered to date from mangrove roots in different parts of the world is given.
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- 2016
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