The first record of caeculid mites from the Cretaceous amber of Myanmar with notes on the phylogeny of the family.

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División Aracnología, Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia" - CONICET, Av. Ángel Gallardo 470 C1405DJR, Buenos Aires, Argentina..

Published: July 2019

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Procaeculus coineaui sp. nov. from Cretaceous Burmese amber is described and its phylogenetic position discussed. This fossil taxon is the first caeculid mite known from Burmese amber and constitutes the earliest record of the family. The genus Procaeculus is redefined to include the new fossil species and internal relationships between genera of the family are discussed based on a phylogenetic hypothesis.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4647.1.5DOI Listing

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