TY - JOUR
JF - Acarologia
T1 - Two species of Acaricis (Acari: Tenuipalpidae) from New Zealand, moved from the genus Tenuipalpus, with a key to the known species
VL - 58
IS - 4
SP - 855
EP - 867
PY - 2018
SN - 0044-586X
SN - 2107-7207
PB - Les Amis d'Acarologia
AU - Castro, Elizeu B.
AU - Beard, Jennifer J.
AU - Ochoa, Ronald
AU - Feres, Reinaldo J. F.
UR - https://doi.org/10.24349/acarologia/20184290
DO - 10.24349/acarologia/20184290
DA - 2018-10-12
ET - 2018-10-12
KW - flat mites
KW - false spider mites
KW - taxonomy
KW - Acaricis montanus
KW - Acaricis alpinus
AB - Acaricis Beard & Gerson (Acari: Tenuipalpidae) is a small genus of flat mites with three species described from Australian and New Zealand sedges (Poales: Cyperaceae). In this article, we redescribe two species, Tenuipalpus montanus Collyer and T. alpinus Collyer, and move them to the genus Acaricis, so that these species become Acaricis montanus (Collyer) comb. nov. and A. alpinus (Collyer) comb. nov.. These two species share several characters with other Acaricis that species of Tenuipalpus do not. A key to the world species of Acaricis is also proposed.
ER -