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 -