A new species of Bakerdania Sasa (Acari: Heterostigmata: Neopygmephoridae) from Tajikistan

Khaustov, Alexander; Homidov, Suhrob

doi:10.22073/pja.v12i4.81979

A new species of Bakerdania Sasa (Acari: Heterostigmata: Neopygmephoridae) from Tajikistan

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Alexander Khaustov ¹

Suhrob Homidov ²

¹ Tyumen State University, Tyumen, 6 Volodarskogo Str., 625003 Russia

² State Organization for Plant Protection and Chemicalization of Agriculture, Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Tajikistan, Dushanbe, Tajikistan

https://doi.org/10.22073/pja.v12i4.81979

Abstract

Females of Bakerdania tadjikistanica sp. nov. (Acari: Heterostigmata: Neopygmephoridae) are described from a soil sample collected from the mountain pasture in Tajikistan. This is the first record of the genus Bakerdania and family Neopygmephoridae in Tajikistan.

Keywords

Morphology

Pygmephoroidea

soil

Palaearctic

systematics

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