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Torrenticola trimaculata n. sp. (Parasitengona: Torrenticolidae), a three-spotted water mite from Eastern North America: Taxonomic history, species delimitation, and survey of external morphology

  • J. Ray Fisher
  • , Danielle M. Fisher
  • , Whitney A. Nelson
  • , Joseph C. O’Neill
  • , Michael J. Skvarla
  • , Ron Ochoa
  • , Gary R. Bauchan
  • , Andrea J. Radwell
  • , Ashley P.G. Dowling

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Abstract

Torrenticola trimaculata Fisher n. sp. is described from eastern North America as the first in a series of descriptions on Torrenticolidae. As such, the study includes expanded discussions of methods, early taxonomic history, and numerous images surveying external morphology using a diversity of imaging methods. Species hypotheses were supported with analysis of the “barcoding” region of COI. Torrenticola trimaculata is found to be a wide-ranging, variable species with two distinct morphs that do not coexist locally. Also, we report the first record of the diatom, Cocconeis placentula Ehrenberg 1838, as epiphytic on water mites.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)71-116
Number of pages46
JournalAcarologia
Volume55
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2015

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Insect Science

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