New mites from the Yampa Valley (Acarina: Cryptostigmata: Oribatulidae, Passalozetidae)

Authors

Harold G. Higgins, Biology Department, Granger High School, Granger, Utah
Tyler A. Woolley, Colorado State University, Fort Collins

Abstract

A study was made of the soil mites from under different vegetative types near a coal-burning power plant in the Yampa Valley near Hayden, Colorado. The following new species of oribatids were found: Zygoribatula apletosa n.sp., Multoribates haydeni n.sp., Paraphauloppia cordylinosa n.sp., Passalozetes moniles n.sp.

Recommended Citation

Higgins, Harold G. and Woolley, Tyler A. (1975) "New mites from the Yampa Valley (Acarina: Cryptostigmata: Oribatulidae, Passalozetidae)," Great Basin Naturalist: Vol. 35: No. 1, Article 12.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/gbn/vol35/iss1/12