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Short Communications • Biota neotrop. 13 (4) • Dec 2013 • https://doi.org/10.1590/S1676-06032013000400029   copy

First record of acari Arrenurus Dugès, 1834 as a parasite of Odonata species in Brazil

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Water mites are common and widespread parasites of some aquatic insects in freshwater habitats. This is the first record of acari Arrenurus Dugès, 1834, as a parasite of Odonata in Brazil. Water mites were sampled from Miathyria marcella (Selys, 1857) and Ischnura fluviatilis (Selys, 1876).

dragonfly; parasitism; water mites

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