Abstract
The study was led to find the predators of family Stigmaeidae from Punjab, Pakistan. The holotype female (immatures & male unknown) of genus Storchia (Storchia sheikhupuraensis) was collected from the urban cultivated area of city Sheikhupura from millet plant (Pennisetum americanum) and described here. Fourteen (14) paratypes with, same collection data including holotype and seven from Oryza sativa. The description, figures, measurements and discussion is given. The collected samples were put in Mite Research Laboratory, Department of Entomology, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan.

BILAL SAEED KHAN, MUHAMMAD ASIF QAYYOUM, ABDUL GHAFFAR, IMRAN ALI, MUHAMMAD FAROOQ. (2021) A new species of the genus Storchia (Acari: Prostigmata: Stigmaeidae) from Pakistan, Biologia – Journal of Biological Society of Pakistan, Volume 67(I), Issue 1.
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