Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Escobar-Garcia, Hector Alonso
• De Andrade, Daniel Júnior
• Matioli, André Luis
• Rojas-Espinoza, Francisco Jose
• Ueckermann, Edward A.

Titel

A new species of Agistemus Summers (Acari: Stigmaeidae), and key to all known species from Peru

Ist Teil von

• Acarologia, 2023-01, Vol.63 (3), p.919-932

Ort / Verlag

Acarologia

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• A new species of the family Stigmaeidae, the genus Agistemus group terminalis, namely: A. peruvianus n. sp., inhabiting foliage of a native forest tree called algarrobo, Neltuma piurensis (Fabaceae), from Piura, north-western Peru, is described and illustrated based on females, males, and deutonymphs. The mites were found during spring, summer, and autumn, but more frequently observed autumn (March to June). A key to the Peru species of the genus Agistemus is provided.