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New species of Near Eastern agamid scale-mites (Acarina, Pterygosomidae) with notes on the developmental stages of Geckobia hemidactyli Law., 1936
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 April 2009
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The following new species are described:
Pterygosoma sinaita sp.nov. (♀, ♂ nymph) off Agama sinaita, A. mutabilis and A. inermis.
P. adramitana sp.nov. (♀, ♂) off A. adramitana.
P. mutabilis sp.nov. (♀, ♂ nymph) off A. mutabilis, A. pallida, A. jayakari and A. inermis.
P. singularis sp.nov. (♀) off A. colonorum.
P. caucasica sp.nov. (♀, ♂ deutonymph, protonymph and larva) off A. caucasica.
P. foliosetis sp.nov. (♀, nymph) off Charasia dorsalis.
Descriptions are also included of the hitherto unrecorded male, nymph and larva of Geckobia hemidactylus Lawrence, 1936, from Hemidactylus mercatorius Gray from Ascension Island.
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