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Description of a new species of Oplitis Berlese, 1884, and the first record of a phoretic uropodid mite (Acari: Oplitidae) on a Neotropical solitary wasp (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)

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Pereira, Matheus Carvalho Soares De Aguiar, Kontschán, Jenő, Bernardi, Leopoldo Ferreira De Oliveira, Hermes, Marcel Gustavo (2016): Description of a new species of Oplitis Berlese, 1884, and the first record of a phoretic uropodid mite (Acari: Oplitidae) on a Neotropical solitary wasp (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Zootaxa 4067 (3): 394-400, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4067.3.8

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