Systematic & Applied Acarology ISSN 1362-1971 An international journal of the Systematic and Applied Acarology Society, published since 1996 [Aims] [Editors] [Content] [Subscriptions] [Contact details] [Society Homepage]

No. 1 (April);  No. 2 (Sept);  No. 3 & 4 (Dec)

No. 3 & 4 (Dec. 2007): 177-280

Cospeciation, Biology & Ecology

Cospeciation between the nasal mite Ptilonyssus sairae (Acari: Rhinonyssidae) and its bird hosts
MARCO MORELLI & GREG S. SPICER (USA), pp 179-188
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Studies on the functional responses of Bdella tropica Atyeo (Acari: Bdellidae) to Xenylla longauda Folsom (Collembola: Hypogastruridae) at different temperatures
JIE JI, YANXUAN ZHANG, XIA CHEN & JIANZHEN LIN (China), pp 189-193
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Predation of Bdellodes japonicus (Ehara) on four species of spider mites (Acari, Bdellidae & Tetranychidae)
XIA CHEN, YANXUAN ZHANG, JIE JI & JIANZHEN LIN (China), pp 195-198
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Systematics, Morphology & Evolution

Redescription of the female of Paraseiulus triporus and Proprioseiopsis dacus (Acari: Phytoseiidae) based on material collected from citrus in northern Iran
F. FARAJI (The Netherlands), M. SHIROODBAKHSHI (Iran), H. OSTOVAN (Iran) & J.A. MCMURTRY (USA), pp 199-204
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A new species of Monatractides (Acari: Hydrachnidia: Torrenticolidae) and new records of other torrenticolid water mites from the Garhwal Himalayas (India)
VLADIMIR PESIC  (Serbia and Montenegro), NEERAJ KUMAR  (India) & KAPIL KUMAR (India), pp 205-212
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The water mite (Acari: Hydrachnidia) fauna of running waters of Guilan Province (Northern Iran)
VLADIMIR PESIC  (Serbia and Montenegro), ABDOLLAH DINIPOUR (Iran), REZA VAFAEI (Iran) & ALIREZA SABOORI (Iran), pp 213-221
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A new taxon of African chigger, Tanautarsala callithrixa gen. nov., sp. nov. (Acari: Trombidioidea; Trombiculidae; Trombiculini), from the Callithrix monkey Chlorocebus sabaeus (L.) from The Gambia
WAYNE A. BROWN (USA), pp 223-228
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Two new species of lohmanniid mites (Acari: Oribatei) from Kerala, India
M.T. SHIJI, M.A. HAQ & N. RAMANI (India), pp 229-236
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Oppiid mites (Acari: Oribatida: Oppiidae) from Mazandaran province (Northern Iran), with a description of Medioppia bipectinata sp. n.
MOHAMMAD ALI AKRAMI  (Iran) & LUIS S. SUBÍAS (Spain), pp 237-243
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Mabulatrichus iranicus (Acari: Oribatida: Zetomotrichidae): a new species from Iran
MOHAMMAD ALI AKRAMI¹ & LOUISE COETZEE (South Africa), pp 245-251
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Revision of some species of Tyrophagus (Acari: Acaridae) in the Oudemans Collection
QING-HAI FAN (China)  & ZHI-QIANG ZHANG (New Zealand), pp253-280
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No. 2 (Sept 2007): 89-176

Biology, Ecology & Control

Variation in the attachment sites of ticks to Australian lizards
ROSS H. ANDREWS  (Australia) & TREVOR N. PETNEY (Germany), pp 91-97
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Efficacy of some botanicals against ectoparasitic mite, Tropilaelaps clareae (Acari: Laelapidae) in Apis mellifera colonies
RAVI K. HOSAMANI, RACHNA GULATI, S.K SHARMA & RISHI KUMAR (India), pp 99-108
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Bioecology and management of spider mites and broad mites occurring on Jatropha curcas L. in Tamil Nadu, India
J. KAVITHA, K. RAMARAJU, V. BASKARAN & P. PRETHEEP KUMAR (India), pp 109-115
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Mass production of the predatory mite Stratiolaelaps scimitus (Womersley) (Acari: Laelapidae)
RENATA ANGÉLICA PRADO FREIRE & GILBERTO JOSÉ DE MORAES (Brazil), pp 117-119
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Preliminary study of the feeding habits of seven species of oribatid mites from Nigeria
M.A. Badejo  (Nigeria) & P.O. Akinwole (USA), pp 121-125
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Systematics, Morphology & Evolution

Tick collections from the Peruvian Amazon, with new host records for species of Ixodes Latreille, 1795 (Acari: Ixodidae) and Ornithodoros Koch, 1844 (Acari: Argasidae)
M. MÓNICA DÍAZ  (Argentina), SANTIAGO NAVA  (Argentina), JOSÉ M. VENZAL (Uruguay), NOFRE SÁNCHEZ (Peru) & ALBERTO A. GUGLIELMONE (Argentina), pp 127-133
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Additional observations on the morphology and hosts of Ixodes stilesi Neumann, 1911 (Acari: Ixodidae)
ALBERTO A. GUGLIELMONE (Argentina), SANTIAGO NAVA (Argentina), DANIEL GONZÁLEZ-ACUÑA (Chile), ATILIO J. MANGOLD (Argentina) & RICHARD G. ROBBINS (USA), pp 135-139
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Litarachna brasiliensis n. sp., the first member of the water mite family Pontarachnidae (Acari: Hydrachnidia) from South America
HARRY SMIT (The Netherlands), pp 141-146
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The first description of a female of the enigmatic water mite genus Pollicipalpus from Australia (Acari: Hydrachnidia: Unionicolidae)
HARRY SMIT (The Netherlands), pp 147-151
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The morphology of the larvae of Arrenurus globator (O. F. Müll.) and A. tubulator (O. F. Müll.) (Acari: Arrenuridae)
ANDRZEJ ZAWAL (Poland), pp 153-160
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Two new species of water mites of the family Hygrobatidae (Acari: Hydrachnidia) from the Garhwal Himalayas (India)
VLADIMIR PESIC (Serbia and Montenegro), NEERAJ KUMAR (India) & KAPIL KUMAR (India), pp 161-166
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Zibethacarus beeri (Astigmata: Glycyphagidae), a new mite species inhabiting vole nests in western Oregon, U.S.A.
NORMAN J. FASHING AND ANDREW BURTON (USA), pp 161-166
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No 1 (April 2007): 1-88

The distribution and dispersion of Amblyomma triguttatum triguttatum on Yorke Peninsula, South Australia. 
ROSS H. ANDREWS (Australia), TREVOR N. PETNEY (Germany), NICOLE A. SHERMAN (Australia), LOUISE A. MCDIARMID (Australia) & BRUCE R. DIXON (Australia), pp 3-12
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Studies on the functional responses of Bdellodes japonicus (Ehara) (Acari: Bdellidae) to Hypogastrura communis Folsom (Collembola: Hypogastruridae)
JIE JI, YANXUAN ZHANG, XIA CHEN & JIANZHEN LIN (P.R. China), pp13-17
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Potential of garlic as grain protectants against Tyrophagus putrescentiae Schrank and Suidasia nesbitti Hughes in wheat
RACHNA GULATI (India), pp19-26
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The Ornithodoros hasei (Schulze, 1935) (Acari: Argasidae) species group in Argentina
SANTIAGO NAVA (Argentina), JOSÉ M. VENZAL (Uruguay), M. MÓNICA DÍAZ (Argentina), ATILIO J. MANGOLD (Arentina) & ALBERTO A. GUGLIELMONE (Argentina), pp27-30
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Two new species of Sperchon Kramer (Acari: Hydrachnidia: Sperchontidae) from the Garhwal Himalayas (India)
NEERAJ KUMAR (India), KAPIL KUMAR (India) & VLADIMIR PESI (Serbia and Montenegro), pp31-36
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Morphology of larval stages of three species (Arrenurus buccinator, A. muelleri and A. stjoerdalensis) of Megaluracarus subgenus (Acari: Hydrachnidia: Arrenuridae)
ANDRZEJ ZAWAL (Poland) pp37-46
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First record of the little known genus Andrevella Southcott, 1961 (Acari: Erythraeidae) from Iran, with a description of a new species
ALIREZA SABOORI, HAMIDREZA HAJIQANBAR & KARIM KAMALI (Iran), pp47-54
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New records of mites (Acari: Prostigmata: Erythraeidae, Trombidiidae, Eutrombidiidae) from France, Liechtenstein and Switzerland, with descriptions of three new species
RYSZARD HAITLINGER (Poland), pp55-72
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New distributional records and redescriptions of oriental ptyctimous mites (Acari, Oribatida) of the Oriental Region
WOJCIECH NIEDBALA (Poland), pp73-79
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Short correspondence

A technique to study fungal diseases in and to isolate the causal organisms from Aceria guerreronis, with special reference to Hirsutella thompsonii infection
P. SREERAMA KUMAR (India), pp81-83
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Supplement to the 1987 bibliography of publications of Harry Hoogstraal (1917–1986)
TERRY L. CARPENTER, LISA L. O'BRIEN & RICHARD G. ROBBINS (USA), pp85-86
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Synonymy of the sand-mite genus Straelensia with the genus Liuella (Acariformes: Trombiculoidea)
TING-HUAN WEN & JUN CHEN (P.R. China), pp87-88
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