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Liacarus bidentatus Ewing 1918

Description

Liacarus bidentatus Ewing, 1918

Geographic Location: AK: Chugach Mtns, Kenai Peninsula (Behan 1978a); YT: Coast Mtns (Behan- Pelletier 1997b); NT: Mackenzie Delta (Behan 1978a); BC: (Woolley 1968); Upper Klanawa Mainline site, near Franklin River (Berch et al. 2001); Interior (Battigelli et al. 2004); Vancouver Is., Mt. Cain (Fagan et al. 2005).

Habitats: tussock tundra; boreal forest litter; Amabilis fir litter.

Distribution: Nearctic.

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 76, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4666.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4000595

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Liacaridae
Genus
Liacarus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Sarcoptiformes
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Ewing
Species
bidentatus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Liacarus bidentatus Ewing, 1918 sec. Behan-Pelletier & Lindo, 2019

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.
  • Berch, S., Baumbrough, B., Battigelli, J., Kroeger, P., Strub, N. & de Montigny, L. (2001) Preliminary assessment of selected soil organisms under different conifer species.. Ministry of Forests, Research Branch Laboratory, Victoria BC, Canada, Research Report, 20, 27 pp.
  • Battigelli, J. P., Spence, J. R., Langor, D. W. & Berch, S. M. (2004) Short-term impact of forest soil compaction and organic matter removal on soil mesofauna density and oribatid mite diversity. Canadian Journal of Forestry Research, 34, 1136 - 1149. https: // doi. org / 10.1139 / x 03 - 267
  • Fagan, L. L., Didham, R. K., Winchester, N. N., Behan-Pelletier, V., Clayton, M., Lindquist, E. & Ring, R. A. (2005) An experimental assessment of biodiversity and species turnover in terrestrial vs. canopy leaf litter. Oecologia, 147 (2), 335 - 347. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 00442 - 005 - 0262 - 6