A new species of Neocaeculus (Acari: Prostigmata: Caeculidae) from Barrow island, Western Australia, with a checklist of world Caeculidae
Abstract
Neocaeculus imperfectus new species is described from material collected on Barrow Island, Western Australia. Keys to genera and Australasian species of Caeculidae are provided, and the relationship between the genera Neocaeculus and Microcaeculus is discussed. A checklist of species for Caeculidae is provided.
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Taylor, Christopher K. and Gunawardene, Nihara R. and Kinnear, Adrianne. 2013. A new species of Neocaeculus (Acari: Prostigmata: Caeculidae) from Barrow Island, Western Australia, with a checklist of world Caeculidae. Acarologia. 53 (4): pp. 439-452.
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Acarologia
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©Taylor C.K. et al. This open-access article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons-BY-NC-ND which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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