Morphological ontogeny, distribution of Hermannia scabra (Acari: Oribatida: Hermanniidae) in Svalbard and descriptive population parameters

• Published in: Acarologia
• Main Authors: Seniczak, Stanisław, Seniczak, Anna, Coulson, Stephen J.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Acarologia 2017
• Subjects: Oribatid mites; soil mites; Arctic area; stage structure; leg setation; Arctic; Seta; Svalbard
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.24349/acarologia/20174214; http://www1.montpellier.inra.fr/CBGP/acarologia/article.php?id=4214

The morphological ontogeny and distribution of Hermannia scabra (L. Koch, 1879) in Arctic Svalbard and descriptive population parameters were investigated. All instars of H. scabra are stocky, as in other species of Hermannia Nicolet, 1855, and have the same gastronotal setal ontogeny (12 pairs in t...