Lazy hitchhikers? Preliminary evidence for within-habitat phoresy in pygmephoroid mites (Acari, Scutacaridae)
Mites of the family Scutacaridae have been found in termite nests and also phoretic on termites. In contrast to what has been reported until now for scutacarid mites, the respective species did not possess claws on leg I for attachment on their host, but clasped to the termites’ coxae probably by us...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung
2018-12-01
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| Series: | Soil Organisms |
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| Online Access: | http://www.soil-organisms.org/index.php/SO/article/view/54 |