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Checklist of Indian mites in the family Laelapidae (Acari: Mesostigmata)

  • 1. Department of Agricultural Entomology, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Mohanpur- 741252, Nadia, West Bengal, India pritha.bandyopadhyay31@gmail.com; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2450-7880
  • 2. Department of Agricultural Entomology, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Mohanpur- 741252, Nadia, West Bengal, India kkbckv64@gmail.com; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5582-3560
  • 3. Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO, Canberra, Australia

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Bandyopadhyay, Pritha, Karmakar, Krishna, Halliday, Bruce (2023): Checklist of Indian mites in the family Laelapidae (Acari: Mesostigmata). Zootaxa 5249 (4): 401-424, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5249.4.1, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5249.4.1

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