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Abstract
The genus Notophthiracarus (Acari: Oribatida: Phthiracaridae) was represented in China by one species prior to this work. In this paper, two new species of Notophthiracarus are described from China: Notophthiracarus fusiformis sp. nov. collected from Jiangsu Province and Notophthiracarus protrusus sp. nov. collected from Hainan Province. A key to all known species of Notophthiracarus in China is provided.
http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:52E20094-76AC-40D1-BD75-DA27A6F81FCC
Acknowledgements
We thank Chong-Hui Liao who collected specimens for us. Sincere thanks are also due to the two anonymous reviewers for their critical reading of the paper and valuable suggestions. This work was supported by the Funds for The Excellent Youth Scholars of “NEIGAE, CAS” (DLSYQ2012004), the Knowledge Innovation Programs of Chinese Academy of Sciences (KSCX2-EW-Z-8), the Major Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China–Fauna Sinica (31093430), the key research program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. KZZD-EW-TZ-16), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 31101617).