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Three new species of the genus Pterygosoma Peters, 1849 parasitising lizards of the subfamily Agaminae (Squamata: Agamidae) are described: P. pallidum n. sp. from Trapelus pallidus (Merrem) and P. parasiniatum n. sp. from Pseudotrapelus cf. sinaitus (Heyden) (both from Jordan); and P. theobaldi n. sp. from Phrynocephalus theobaldi Blyth from North India. We extend the standard morphological description of the new species by using DNA barcode markers, partial sequences of the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (cox1) gene and the hypervariable region D2 of the nuclear 28S rRNA gene. A key to the species group inermis is constructed based on female morphology. The agamid genus Phrynocephalus Kaup, 1825 is recorded as a host of Pterygosoma for the first time.
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We would like to thank Dr Andre V. Bochkov (ZISP) for his insightful comments on the manuscript. We also thank Janet Beccaloni for sending the type-specimens of mites from the inermis group for study. Moreover, we thank members of the Second West Himalayan Expedition arranged by the St. Petersburg Association of Scientists & Scholars and Dr. Leo J. Borkin (ZISP Herpetology) for collecting mites from the toad-headed lizards.
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This research was financially supported by the Polish National Science Centre (No. DEC-2013/11/N/NZ8/00618) to Monika Fajfer. The study was partially supported by grants of Russian Foundation for Basic Research (Project No. RFBR 15-04-01730), Scientific School Support Program (Project No. NSh.2990.2014.4), Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (state project no. 01201351184) to Daniel Melnikov.
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Fajfer, M., Melnikov, D. & Dabert, M. Three new species of the genus Pterygosoma Peters, 1849 (Acariformes: Pterygosomatidae) from agamid lizards (Sauria: Agaminae) with DNA barcode data. Syst Parasitol 93, 791–814 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11230-016-9667-3
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