Africasia K. Viets, 1931

Smit, Harry & Pešić, Vladimir, 2014, Water mites from Mount Kinabalu and the Crocker Range, Borneo, Malaysia (Acari: Hydrachnidia), with the description of 34 new species, Zootaxa 3876 (1), pp. 1-71 : 66

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3876.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:071AFC59-C2EA-429A-8511-BAC5C4539C04
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5696037
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scientific name	Africasia K. Viets, 1931
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Genus Africasia K. Viets, 1931

The genus Africasia has an Aftropical and Oriental distribution with 14 species known up to now ( K.O. Viets 1987, Smit et al. 2010, Pešić & Gerecke 2014). Originally the genus was placed in the Arrenuridae , but Cook (2001) proposed to shift the subfamily to the Athienemanniidae .