Persian Journal of Acarology

Persian Journal of Acarology

New faunistic and taxonomic data on oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from the Gambela region, Western Ethiopia

Authors
1 Tyumen State University, Institute of Environmental and Agricultural Biology (X-BIO), Tyumen, Russia
2 Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Laboratory of Soil Zoology and General Entomology, Moscow, Russia
Abstract
The present study is based on oribatid mite materials collected from the Gambela region, Ethiopia. A list of 41 species, belonging to 30 genera and 20 families, is presented. One new species Scheloribates (Scheloribatesaboboensis Ermilov sp. nov. (Scheloribatidae) is described.
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