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Peloribates pilosus Hammer 1952

Description

Peloribates pilosus Hammer, 1952

Geographic Location: AK: Northern and northwestern coastal plain; Brooks Range; Fairbanks Region; Chugach Mtns; Kenai Peninsula (Behan 1978a); YT: Coastal Plain; Richardson Mtns (Behan-Pelletier 1997b); NT: Tuktoyaktuk (Behan 1978a); NU: Keewatin (Behan 1978a); AB: peatlands (Behan-Pelletier & Bissett 1994); Wagner Natural Area, 8km W Edmonton, 53°34’N, 113°47’W, fen (Finnamore 1994); ABMI Sites; Moose Pasture Research Site (Walter et al. 2014); ABMI Sites (Meehan et al. 2019); 35 km north of Fort McMurray (McAdams et al. 2018); MB: Churchill (Hammer 1952a, 1955b).

Habitats: Tussock tundra; boreal forest with White spruce, Black spruce, Jack pine and Trembling aspen; peatlands.

Distribution: Holarctic.

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

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Haplozetidae
Genus
Peloribates
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Sarcoptiformes
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Hammer
Species
pilosus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Peloribates pilosus Hammer, 1952 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.
  • 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.
  • Behan-Pelletier, V. M. & Bissett, B. (1994) Oribatida of Canadian peatlands. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada, 169, 73 - 88. https: // doi. org / 10.4039 / entm 126169073 - 1
  • Finnamore, A. T. (1994) Hymenoptera of the Wagner Natural Area, a boreal springfen in Central Alberta. Memoirs of the entomological Society of Canada 169, 181 - 220. https: // doi. org / 10.4039 / entm 126169181 - 1
  • 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
  • McAdams, B. N., Quideau, S. A., Swallow, M. J. B. & Lumley, L. M. (2018) Oribatid mite recovery along a chronosequence of afforested boreal sites following oil sand mining. Forest Ecology and Management, 422, 281 - 193. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. foreco. 2018.04.034
  • Hammer, M. (1952 a) Investigations of the Microfauna of Northern Canada. Part I. Oribatidae. Acta Arctica, 4, 1 - 108.
  • Hammer, M. (1955 b) Some aspects of the distribution of microfauna in the Arctic. Arctic Journal, Arctic Institute of North America, 8, 115 - 126. https: // doi. org / 10.14430 / arctic 3811