ACOMATACARUS ARIZONENSIS (ACARI: LEEUWENHOEKIIDAE): NEW RECORDS FROM THREE SPECIES OF LIZARDS IN THE MEXICAN CHIHUAHUAN DESERT
Por:
Garcia-De La Pena, C, Paredes-León R., O'Connor B., Gadsden-Esparza H., Barrows C.W.
Publicada:
1 jun 2010
Categoría:
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Resumen:
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 Crotaphylus antiquus in the Sierra San Lorenzo, Matamoros, Coahuila, Mexico, and Sceloporus jarrovii in the Valle de las Piedras Encimadas, Dinamita, Durango, Mexico.
Filiaciones:
Paredes-León R.:
Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico, Inst Biol, Mexico City 04510, DF, Mexico
O'Connor B.:
Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, 1109 Geddes Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Gadsden-Esparza H.:
Instituto de Ecología Asociación Civil, Centro Regional Chihuahua, Carretera Chihuahua-Ojinaga, Km 3.3, Ciudad Aldama, Chihuahua, Mexico
Barrows C.W.:
Center for Conservation Biology, University of California, Riverside, Palm Desert Campus, 75-080 Frank Sinatra Drive, Palm Desert, CA, United States
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