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AN UNUSUAL NEW SPECIES OF NEOACARUS (ACARI: PARASITENGONA: NEOACARIDAE) FROM A LAKE IN ONTARIO

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Ian M. Smith
Affiliation:
Biosystematics Research Institute, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa

Abstract

Male and female adults of Neoacarus lacus n. sp. are described. This species is unique among Neoacaridae in that male adults possess 5 or 6, rather than 3, pairs of genital acetabula, and the adults inhabit a shallow eutrophic lake rather than the interstitial habitat in a stream bed.

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Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1976

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