A new species of Dolicheremaeus (Acari: Oribatida: Tetracondylidae) from Ethiopia
2010
Ermilov, Sergey G. | Sidorchuk, Ekaterina A. | Rybalov, Leonid B.
The oribatid mite genus Dolicheremaeus comprises more than 160 species. We describe a new species, Dolicheremaeus aethiopicus sp. nov., collected in soil from Bale Mountains National Park (African region, Ethiopia). This new species differs from other species by a combination of the length of prodorsal setae; morphology of rostral setae and sensilli; morphology and number of notogastral condyles and the morphology of the notogastral setae; number of epimeral setae; and the morphology of leg setae u.
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