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Five new species of larval mites (Acarina: Trombiculinae)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

Charles D. Radford
Affiliation:
Membre Correspondant, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris

Extract

Prior to 1939 our knowledge of the mites of the sub-family Trombiculinae was limited to about a dozen species, whose life history had been the subject of investigations by Nagayo and his associates in Japan, Walch in the Dutch East Indies and Gater, Fletcher, Lesslar and Lewthwaite in Malaya.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1953

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