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Paroppia Hammer

Description

Paroppia Hammer

First record for Argentina.

Paroppia n. sp . 1

Specimens examined: Cerro P. Laguna under N. antarctica leaf litter XI-2006 (1), soil XI-2006 (1). 270 µm.

Remarks: Genus originally described from New Zealand with P. lebruni Hammer as type species. There are only four recognized species for the genus Paroppia Hammer. The shape of sensillus (geniculated, with four distal parallel lines of ciliae) is very different in P. l e b r u n i Hammer.

Notes

Published as part of Kun, Marcelo E., Martínez, Pablo A. & Gonzalez, Alda, 2010, Oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) from Austrocedrus chilensis and Nothofagus forests of Northwestern Patagonia (Argentina), pp. 22-42 in Zootaxa 2548 on pages 34-35, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.196766

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Oppiidae
Genus
Paroppia
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Sarcoptiformes
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Hammer
Taxon rank
genus