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Acomatacarus arizonensis (Acari: Leeuwenhoekiidae): New Records from Three Species of Lizards in the Mexican Chihuahuan Desert

2010; Southwestern Association of Naturalists; Volume: 55; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1894/jc-34.1

ISSN

1943-6262

Autores

Cristina García-De la Peña, Ricardo Paredes-León, Barry M. OConnor, Héctor Gadsden, Cameron W. Barrows,

Tópico(s)

Botany and Geology in Latin America and Caribbean

Resumo

We collected a mite, Acomatacarus arizonensis, for the first time from the states of Coahuila and Durango, Mexico. It had been reported previously only in Mexico from the Peninsula of Baja California and from Guerrero. Larvae of this mite was parasitizing the endemic lizards Sceloporus cyanostictus and Crotaphytus antiquus in the Sierra San Lorenzo, Matamoros, Coahuila, Mexico, and Sceloporus jarrovii in the Valle de las Piedras Encimadas, Dinamita, Durango, Mexico.

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