TABLE 1 in Hotspots of new species discovery: new mite species described during 2007 to 2012

TABLE 1. The number of new species described in Systematic & Applied Acarology and Zootaxa during 2007–2012, with comparison to total numbers of new species of mites indexed in Zoological Record. YearSAAZootaxaTotalTotal indexed in ZR*200717131148525200812195207593200912222234670201017191208571201128305333628201230219249597**Total116126313793584** *Data from Zoological Record based on summaries of new names in http://organismnames.com/ (accessed: 14 Apr. 2013). ** 467 (in the database as of 14 Apr. 2013) for 2012 is an underestimate because not all papers published in 2012 have been indexed. 597 used here is the average from the last five years and is here used as an estimated value for 2012).