Two new species of the genus Psorergates Tyrell, 1883 (Acarina: Prostigmata: Psorergatidae) parasitic on insectivores, with a key to the known species from Insectivora hosts
1983 - Volume: 24 Issue: 4 pages: 403-415
Keywords
Psorergatidae
insectivora
host-parasite
parallel evolution
Abstract
Two new species are described and figured: Psorergates urotrichi ex Urotrichus talpoides Temmninck, and Psorergates cryptotis ex Cryptotis nigrescens Allen. Specimens from Crocidura lasiura Dobson are similar to Psorergates crocidurae Lukoschus, 1968, ex Crocidura russula (Hermann). A key to the species from Insectivora hasts is given, and the parallel evolution of hasts and parasites is discussed
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