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Scutozetes lanceolatus Hammer 1952

Description

Scutozetes lanceolatus Hammer, 1952

Geographic Location: AK: Northern and northwest coastal plain; Atqasuk; Brooks Range; Fairbanks Region; Denali NP; Chugach Mtns; Kenai Peninsula (Behan 1978a); YT: Richardson Mtns (Hammer 1952a); Porcupine Plain; Richardson Mtns; Ogilvie Mtns (Behan-Pelletier 1997b); NT: Yellowknife (Hammer 1952a); Mackenzie Delta arctic and subarctic (Behan 1978a); AB: ABMI Sites (Walter et al. 2014; Meehan et al. 2019); QC: Northern region; Timmins 54°60’N, 67°00’W (Behan 1978a); NS: Cape Breton Highlands NP (Behan-Pelletier 2010; Behan-Pelletier et al. 1987)

Habitats: dry biotopes: in lichen with moss; in dense Dryas vegetation with reindeer lichen and liverwort; scattered cushions of Salix and Oxytropus pygmaeus on gravel and stony fields; on manured bird perches.

Distribution: Nearctic.

Genus Sphaerozetes Berlese, 1885

Notes

Published as part of Behan-Pelletier, Valerie M. & Lindo, Zoë, 2019, Checklist of oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) of Canada and Alaska, pp. 1-180 in Zootaxa 4666 (1) on page 141, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4666.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4000595

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References

  • Behan, V. M. (1978 a) Diversity, distribution and feeding habits of North American arctic soil Acari. Ph. D. Thesis, McGill University, Montreal, 428 pp.
  • Hammer, M. (1952 a) Investigations of the Microfauna of Northern Canada. Part I. Oribatidae. Acta Arctica, 4, 1 - 108.
  • Behan-Pelletier V. M. (1997 b) Oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) of the Yukon. In: Danks, H. V. & Downes, J. A. (Eds.), Insects of the Yukon. Biological Survey of Canada (Terrestrial Arthropods), Ottawa, pp. 115 - 149.
  • Walter, D. E., Latonas, S., Byers, K. & Lumley, L. M. (2014) Almanac of Alberta Oribatida Part I. Ver. 2.4. Royal Alberta Museum, Edmonton, AB. 542 pp. Available from: https: // www. royalalbertamuseum. ca / research / lifeSciences / invertebrateZoology / research. cfm (accessed 20 March 2019)
  • Meehan, M. L., Song, Z., Lumley, L. M., Cobb, T. P. & Proctor, H. (2019) Soil mites as bioindicators of disturbance in the boreal forest in northern Alberta, Canada: Testing taxonomic sufficiency at multiple taxonomic levels. Ecological Indicators, 102, 349 - 368. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. ecolind. 2019.02.043
  • Behan-Pelletier, V. M., Lindquist, E. E. & Smith, I. M. (1987) Subclass Acari (mites and ticks). In: Lafontaine, J. D., Allyson, S., Behan-Pelletier, V. M., Borkent, A., Campbell, J. M., Hamilton, K. G. A., Martin, J. E. H. & Masner, L. (Eds.), The Insects, Spiders and Mites of Cape Breton Highlands National Park. Biosystematics Research Centre, Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, pp. 18 - 66.