THE MILLIPEDE GENUS LEUCOGEORGIA VERHOEFF, 1930 IN THE CAUCASUS, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF ELEVEN NEW SPECIES, ERECTION OF A NEW MONOTYPIC GENUS AND NOTES ON THE TRIBE LEUCOGEORGIINI (DIPLOPODA: JULIDA: JULIDAE)

The millipede genus Leucogeorgia Verhoeff, 1930 in the Caucasus, with descriptions of eleven new species, erection of a new monotypic genus and notes on the tribe Leucogeorgiini (Diplopoda: Julida: Julidae)

The Caucasian leucogeorgiinine genera Archileucogeorgia Lohmander, 1936 and Leucogeorgia Verhoeff, 1930 are revised, with Leucogeorgia being considered as a senior subjective synonym of Archileucogeorgia, syn.nov.The following new combinations are thus warranted: Leucogeorgia abchasica (Lohmander, 1936) and L.satunini (Lohmander, 1936), both comb.n

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Morphological identification of Amphitetranychus species (Acari: Tetranychidae) with crossbreeding, esterase zymograms and DNA barcode data.

The genus Amphitetranychus Oudemans (Tetranychidae) consists of only three species, A.quercivorus (Ehara & Gotoh), A.savenkoae (Reck) and A.viennensis (Zacher).The original description of A.savenkoae was extremely simple and had no drawing of the aedeagus; however, a subsequent study described only the aedeagus.The present study investigated all th

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