Recent Publications By OSAL Staff (Since 2001)

Kazemi, S., H. Klompen, M. L. Moraza, K. Kamali and A. Saboori. 2008. A new species of Weiseronyssus Samsinak 1962 (Acari: Mesostigmata: Diplogyniidae) from Iran, with a key to the genera. Zootaxa 1824: 17-27. (pdf, 500 kB)

Bochkov, A. V., H. Klompen and B. M. OConnor. 2008. Review of external morphology of Chirorhynchobiidae (Acari: Sarcoptoidea). Journal of Medical Entomology 45: 193-202. (pdf, 520 kB)

Alberti, G., B. S. Gerdeman and H. Klompen. 2007. Fine structure of spermiogenesis in a heterozerconid mite (Heterozerconidae; Heterozerconina; Gamasida). In: Acarology XI: Proceedings of the International Congress, UNAM, Mexico, pp. 557-560. (pdf, 788 kB)

Klompen, H., M. Lekveishvili and W. C. Black, IV. 2007. Phylogeny of Parasitiform mites (Acari) based on rRNA. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 43:936-951. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2006.10.024 (pdf, 840 kB)

Klompen, H. and C. C. Austin. 2007. A new species of Ophiomegistus Banks (Acari: Paramegistidae) from Papua New Guinea. Zootaxa 1387: 47-57. (pdf, 1.0 MB)

Whiteman, N. K., P. Sánchez, J. Merkel, H. Klompen and P. G. Parker. 2006. Cryptic host specificity of an avian skin mite (Epidermoptidae) vectored by louseflies (Hippoboscidae) associated with two endemic Galápagos bird species. Journal of Parasitology 92: 1218-1228. (pdf, 644 kB)

Lekveishvili, M. and H. Klompen. 2006. New classification of family Sejidae (Acari: Mesostigmata) based on morphological analyses. Journal of Natural History, London 40: 2317-2339. (pdf, 820 kB)

Desch, C. E., S. L. Davis and H. Klompen. 2006. Two new species of Demodex Owen, 1843, the hair follicle mites (Demodecidae), from the Dzungarian hamster, Phodopus sungorus (Pallas, 1773) (Rodentia : Muridae). International Journal of Acarology 32: 75-80.

Uppstrom, K. and H. Klompen. 2005. A new species of Julolaelaps (Acari: Iphiopsididae) from African millipedes. International Journal of Acarology 31: 143-147. (pdf, 308 kB)

Hagele, T., B. Kaufman, J. O. Whitaker, Jr. and H. Klompen. 2005. The genus Euryparasitus in North America (Mesostigmata: Euryparasitidae). Zootaxa 1036: 1-20. (pdf, 416 kB)

Lekveishvili, M. and H. Klompen. 2004. Phylogeny of infraorder Sejina (Acari, Mesostigmata). Zootaxa 629: 1-19. (pdf, 160kB)

Lekveishvili, M. and H. Klompen. 2004. A new species of Sejidae (Acari: Mesostigmata) from the Southeastern U.S.A. International Journal of Acarology 30: 229-238. (pdf, 1.2 MB)

Lekveishvili, M. and G. W. Krantz. 2004. A new genus of the family Sejidae (Acari: Mesostigmata) based on Sejus krantzi and S. manualkrantzi Hirschmann, 1991. Systematic and Applied Acarology, Special Publications 20: 1-4.

Klompen, H. 2004. Ticks, the Ixodida. In W. C. Marquardt (ed) Ticks, the Ixodida. Elsevier Academic press, pp. 45-55.

Klompen, H. 2003. Ixodida, Ticks, Kongana. In S. M. Goodman and J. P. Benstead (eds), Ixodida, Ticks, Kongana. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, pp. 588-593.

Gerdeman, B. S. and H. Klompen. 2003. A new North American heterozerconid, Narceoheterozercon ohioensis, n. gen., n. sp., with first description of immatures of Heterozerconidae (Acari: Mesostigmata). International Journal of Acarology 29: 351-370.

Vázquez González, M. M. and H. Klompen. 2002. The family Opilioacaridae (Acari: Parasitiformes) in North and Central America, with description of four new species. Acarologia, Paris 42: 299-322. (pdf, 1.7 MB)

Klompen, H., S. J. Dobson and S. C. Barker. 2002. A new subfamily, Bothriocrotoninae n. subfam., for the genus Bothriocroton Keirans, King & Sharrad, 1994 n. status (Ixodida: Ixodidae), and synonymy of Aponomma Neumann, 1899 with Amblyomma Koch, 1844. Systematic Parasitology 53: 101-107. (pdf, 92 kB)

Klompen, H. 2002. Mites. In R. Lal (ed) Mites. Marcel Dekker, Inc., pp. 837-839.

Kim, C.-M. and H. Klompen. 2002. A new genus and species of Paramegistidae (Mesostigmata: Trigynaspida) asociated with millipedes from Mexico. Acarologia, Paris 42: 39-52.

Alberti, G. and H. Klompen. 2002. Fine structure of unusual spermatozoa and spermiogenesis of the mite, Megisthanus floridanus Banks, 1904 (Acari: Gamasida: Antennophorina). Acta Zoologica, Copenhagen 83: 277-295. (pdf, 2.5MB)

Al-Atawi, F., H. Klompen and J. C. Moser. 2002. Redescription of Schizosthetus lyriformis (McGraw and Farrier, 1969) (Parasitiformes: Parasitidae), with revision of the genus. International Journal of Acarology 28: 341-360.

Yoder, J. A. and H. Klompen. 2001. Water relations of Julolaelaps sp. (Mesostigmata: Iphiopsididae), with inferences on its biology. International Journal of Acarology 27: 55-58.

Vázquez González, M. M. and H. Klompen. 2001. Uropodina (Acari: Mesostigmata) de las selves tropicales de Quintana Roo, México y Belice. In M. M. Vázquez González (ed) Uropodina (Acari: Mesostigmata) de las selves tropicales de Quintana Roo, México y Belice. Universidad de Quintana Roo, Chetumal, Quintana Roo, pp. 145.

Klompen, H. and D. A. Grimaldi. 2001. First Mesozoic record of a parasitiform mite: a larval argasid tick in Cretaceous amber (Acari: Ixodida: Argasidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 94: 10-15. (pdf, 316 kB)