Interstitial water mites of Argentina: Omartacarus Cook

Abstract

A male exemplar identified as Omartacarus brevipalpis Cook, collected in Tucuman (Argentina), is reassigned to O. tucumanensis Fernández, as is the nymph described by Cook in 1980 near the type locality of O. tucumanensis. New distributional data are presented for Omartacarus and Meramecia (Submeramecia) diamphida Cook. Meramecia saltensis Fernández is assigned to the subgenus Parameramecia, where it is the second species at the present