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1 June 2010 Acomatacarus arizonensis (Acari: Leeuwenhoekiidae): New Records from Three Species of Lizards in the Mexican Chihuahuan Desert
Cristina García-De la Peña, Ricardo Paredes-León, Barry O'Connor, Héctor Gadsden-Esparza, Cameron W. Barrows
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Abstract

We collected a mite, Acomatacarus arizonensis, for the first time from the states of Coahuila and Durango, Mexico. It had been reported previously only in Mexico from the Peninsula of Baja California and from Guerrero. Larvae of this mite was parasitizing the endemic lizards Sceloporus cyanostictus and Crotaphytus antiquus in the Sierra San Lorenzo, Matamoros, Coahuila, Mexico, and Sceloporus jarrovii in the Valle de las Piedras Encimadas, Dinamita, Durango, Mexico.

Cristina García-De la Peña, Ricardo Paredes-León, Barry O'Connor, Héctor Gadsden-Esparza, and Cameron W. Barrows "Acomatacarus arizonensis (Acari: Leeuwenhoekiidae): New Records from Three Species of Lizards in the Mexican Chihuahuan Desert," The Southwestern Naturalist 55(2), 278-279, (1 June 2010). https://doi.org/10.1894/JC-34.1
Received: 17 March 2009; Accepted: 1 August 2009; Published: 1 June 2010
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