TY - JOUR JF - Acarologia T1 - Acari from operation Drake in New-Guinea. 3. Paramegistidae VL - 25 IS - 1 SP - 5 EP - 16 PY - 1984 SN - 0044-586X SN - 2107-7207 PB - Les Amis d'Acarologia AU - Domrow, R. UR - https://www1.montpellier.inrae.fr/CBGP/acarologia/article.php?id=2738 DA - 1984-03-23 KW - Paramegistidae KW - Ophiomegistus KW - reptiles KW - Australia KW - New guinea AB - Both sexes of Ophiomegistus joppae, O. blumi and O. iriani spp. nov. are figured and described from scincid lizards in New Guinea (unidentified, Sphenomorphus derooyae (de Jong) and Emoia pallidiceps de Vis, respectively). The previously unknown male of O. australicus (Womersley) is described from an Australian skink (Egernia frerei Günther). A new snake host (Micropechis ikaheka (Lesson), Elapidae) is listed from New Guinea for the widespread O. luzonensis Banks. ER -