TY - JOUR JF - Acarologia T1 - New records of water mites from Southeast Asia (Acari: Hydrachnidia) with the description of two new genera and 12 new species VL - 56 IS - 3 SP - 393 EP - 433 PY - 2016 SN - 0044-586X SN - 2107-7207 PB - Les Amis d'Acarologia AU - Pesic, V. AU - Smit, H. UR - https://doi.org/10.1051/acarologia/20162251 DO - 10.1051/acarologia/20162251 DA - 2016-07-22 ET - 2016-07-22 KW - Water mites KW - taxonomy KW - new species KW - Oriental region KW - Vietnam KW - Laos KW - Cambodia AB - Twenty-one species of water mites (Acari, Hydrachnidia) were collected in 2015 during a hydrobiological survey conducted by Burkhard Scharf in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. Twelve taxa new to science are described, representing the families Torrenticolidae (Torrenticola laosensis n. sp.), Limnesiidae (Limnesia scharfi n. sp.), Hygrobatidae (Vietnobates oryzae n. gen., n. sp.), Pionidae (Schwoerbelia pioniformis n. gen., n. sp., Forelia gereckei n. sp.), Aturidae (Hexaxonopsis laosensis n. sp., H. cambodiensis n. sp., H. angkoriensis n. sp., Javalbia vietnamica n. sp., Sinaxonopsis laosensis n. sp.), Athienemanniidae (Africasia purpurea n. sp.) and Arrenuridae (Arrenurus contortus n. sp.). ER -