Ascid mites (Acari: Mesostigmata: Ascidae) from Costa Rican hummingbirds (Aves: Trochilidae), with description of three new species and a key to the Proctolaelaps belemensis species group

Zootaxa

Volumn , Issue 1484, 2007, Pages 51-67

  Dusbabek, Frantisek ^a   Literak, Ivan ^b   Capek, Miroslav ^c   Havlicek, Martin ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY AND PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES   (Czech Republic)

^c INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE BIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ascidae; Costa Rica; Hummingbird flower mites; Proctolaelaps; Rhinoseius; Trochilidae; Tropicoseius

Indexed keywords

ACARI; ASCIDAE; AVES; CHALYBURA; MESOSTIGMATA; PROCTOLAELAPS; RHINOSEIUS; THRENETES; TROCHILIDAE; TROPICOSEIUS;

EID: 34249977355     PISSN: 11755326     EISSN: 11755334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1484.1.3     Document Type: Article

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