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Revisional study on water mites of the family HarpagopalpidaeK. Viets, 1924 (Acari: Hydrachnidia), with descriptions of newspecies from Cameroon and Madagascar

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2009

R. Gerecke
R. Gerecke*
Affiliation:
Biesingerstr. 11, D - 72070 Tübingen, Germany.
*
reinhard.gerecke@uni-tuebingen.de
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Abstract

Three new species of the genus Harpagopalpus are described from Madagascar, allowing a redefinition of diagnostic character states of the monotypic family Harpagopalpidae, previously known only from Western Africa (two species) and India (one species. The separation of the subgenera Harpagopalpus and Harpagopalpellus is supported by new characters. Harpagopalpus octoporus K.Viets, 1924 and H. tetraporus K.Viets, 1924 are redescribed and a lectotype is designated of H. octoporus. A fourth new species is described from Cameroon, based on a male specimen erroneously considered to be the female of H. octoporus by K. Viets.

Keywords

Diversitytropical streamsMouthpart morphologysystematicsAfrica
Type
Research Article
Information
Annales de Limnologie - International Journal of Limnology , Volume 42 , Issue 2 , June 2006 , pp. 109 - 125
Copyright
© Université Paul Sabatier, 2006

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