AUSTRALACARUS (ACARI HELACARIDAE) FROM NORTHERN AUSTRALIA, WITH THE DESCRIPTION OF THREE NEW SPECIES

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Abstract - The Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea are inhabited by at least four species of Australacarus Bartsch, namely A. pustulatus Bartsch and three new species that are described here, A. longipalpus sp. nov., A. mesaktanus sp. nov. and A. zagorskisae sp. nov. Australacarus pustulatus is also recorded from the northwestern Australian Montebello Islands. Its larva, the first one known for Australacarus, is described and compared with that of other halacarid taxa. A key to Australacarus species is presented and Australacarinae subfam. nov. is proposed to accommodate Australacarlls and Colobocerasides Viets.