TY - JOUR JF - Acarologia T1 - A new cunaxid mite Pulaeus zaherii sp. n. from rat burrows in Egypt (Actinedida: Cunaxidae) VL - 24 IS - 4 SP - 373 EP - 375 PY - 1983 SN - 0044-586X SN - 2107-7207 PB - Les Amis d'Acarologia AU - El-Bishlawy, S.M. AU - Rakha, M.A. UR - https://www1.montpellier.inrae.fr/CBGP/acarologia/article.php?id=2748 DA - 1983-12-23 KW - Cunaxidae KW - Pulaeus KW - new species KW - Egypt AB - A new species of Pulaeus taken from rat burrows in the Kalubeia region of Egypt is described from the female as P. zaherii sp. n. It is noted that most species of Cunaxidae (the mite family to which P. zaherii belongs) are predators of scale insects and tetranychids in the trees and of other small arthropods on the soil surface, in litter or animal droppings, or in the topsoil layer. ER -