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Torrenticola trimaculata n. sp. (Parasitengona: Torrenticolidae), a three-spotted water mite from eastern North America: taxonomic history, species delimitation, and survey of external morphology

Fisher, J.R. ; Fisher, D.M. ; Nelson, W.A. ; O'Neill, J.C. ; Skvarla, M.J. ; Ochoa, R. ; Bauchan, G.R. ; Radwell, A.J. and Dowling, A.P.G.


2015 - Volume: 55 Issue: 1 pages: 71-116

https://doi.org/10.1051/acarologia/20152155

Keywords

Trombidiformes Prostigmata Hydrachnidia Hydrachnidiae LT-SEM Cocconeidaceae

Abstract

Torrenticola trimaculata Fisher n. sp. is described from eastern North America as the first in a series of descriptions on Torrenticolidae. As such, the study includes expanded discussions of methods, early taxonomic history, and numerous images surveying external morphology using a diversity of imaging methods. Species hypotheses were supported with analysis of the "barcoding" region of COI. Torrenticola trimaculata is found to be a wide-ranging, variable species with two distinct morphs that do not coexist locally. Also, we report the first record of the diatom, Cocconeis placentula Ehrenberg 1838, as epiphytic on water mites.

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Date received:
2014-12-22
Date accepted:
2015-02-17
Date published:
2015-03-30

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2015 Fisher, J.R.; Fisher, D.M.; Nelson, W.A.; O'Neill, J.C.; Skvarla, M.J.; Ochoa, R.; Bauchan, G.R.; Radwell, A.J. and Dowling, A.P.G.
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