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.
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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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The Southwestern Naturalist
Vol. 55 • No. 2
June 2010
Vol. 55 • No. 2
June 2010