Title | A new genus and species of Macrochelidae (Acari: Mesostigmata) associated with the Texas leafcutting ant, Atta texana (Buckley) in Louisiana, USA |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Year of Publication | 2012 |
Authors | Krantz, GW, Moser, JC |
Journal | International Journal of Acarology |
Volume | 38 |
Pagination | 576-582 |
Type of Article | Journal Article |
ISSN | 0164-7954 |
Abstract | Adults and nymphs of a new genus and species of the family Macrochelidae are described from detritus cavities of the leaf-cutting ant, Atta texana. This new species is notable in having peritremes with no posterior loop, a series of small subterminal teeth on the fixed cheliceral digit rather than the single large tooth typical of other macrochelids and well-developed paranal cribral extensions in both the protonymph and the deutonymph, but not in adults. |
URL | <Go to ISI>://WOS:000309123900005 |
DOI | 10.1080/01647954.2012.704396 |