Fungal spore transfer and intraspecific variability of a newly described African soil mite (Heterostigmata, Scutacaridae, Heterodispus)

Zoologischer Anzeiger

Volumn 251, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 101-114

  Jagersbacher Baumann, Julia ^a   Ebermann, Ernst ^a  

^a Inst Zool an Karl Franzens Univ   (Austria)

Author keywords

African rodents; Morphometrics; New Heterodispus species; Phoresy; Scutacaridae; Sporothecae; Variability

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; ECOLOGY; HOST RANGE; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; MITE; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRY; NEW SPECIES; PHORESY; RIPARIAN ZONE; RODENT;

SOUTH AFRICA;

ACARI; COLEOPTERA; FUNGI; HETEROSTIGMATA; MAMMALIA; RODENTIA; SCUTACARIDAE;

EID: 84860839571     PISSN: 00445231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcz.2011.05.008     Document Type: Article

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