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Review of the distribution and biology of the snake mite Ophionyssus natricis (Acari: Macronyssidae)

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  • 1. Tyumen State Medical University, Tyumen, Russia. & National Research Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia. & Federal Scientific Research Institute of Viral Infections «Virome» of Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing, Ekaterinburg, Russia.
  • 2. Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO, Canberra, Australia.
  • 3. C. P. Gillette Museum of Arthropod Diversity, Fort Collins, USA.
  • 4. Zoological Institute of Russian Academy of Science, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
  • 5. Federal Scientific Research Institute of Viral Infections Virome of Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing, Ekaterinburg, Russia.
  • 6. Russian State Agrarian University - Moscow Agricultural Academy named after. K. A. Timiryazev, Moscow, Russia. & Tyumen State Medical University, Tyumen, Russia.

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OrlovaK, Maria V., HallidayK, Bruce, ReevesK, Will K., DoroninK, Igor V., MishchenkoK, Vladimir A., VyalykhK, Ivan V., KidovK, Artem A. (2024): Review of the distribution and biology of the snake mite Ophionyssus natricis (Acari: Macronyssidae). Acarologia 64 (2): 637-653, DOI: 10.24349/gmr0-8m9o, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.24349/gmr0-8m9o

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