Association between neotropical burrowing spiders (araneae: Nemesiidae) and mites (acari: Heterostigmata, scutacaridae)

Acarologia

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 173-184

  Ebermann, Ernst ^a   Goloboff, Pablo A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE TUCUMÁN   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Phoresy scutacaridae; Spider biology; Spider mite associations

Indexed keywords

ACARI; ARANEAE; HETEROSTIGMATA; NEMESIIDAE; SCUTACARIDAE; SCUTACARUS; TETRANYCHIDAE;

EID: 67249107487     PISSN: 0044586X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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