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Cepheus C. L. Koch 1835

Description

Cepheus sp.

Geographic Location and Habitats: YT: interglacial and mid Wisconsinan fossils (Matthews & Telka 1997); AB: Kananaskis Valley, Lodgepole pine litter (Powell & Skaley 1975); 35 km north of Fort McMurray (2 spp.) (McAdams et al. 2018); ABMI Sites (3 spp.); Moose Pasture Research Site, Narrow Lake (54°35’ N, 113°37’ W) (Walter et al. 2014); ABMI Sites (2 spp.) (Meehan et al. 2019); QC: Gatineau Park, Polyporus bracket fungi (Pielou & Verma 1968); Mont Tremblant (Behan et al. 1978); NB: Polyporus bracket fungi (2 spp.) (Pielou & Verma 1968); NS: Cape Breton Highlands NP (Behan-Pelletier 2010; Behan-Pelletier et al. 1987).

Genus Conoppia Berlese, 1908

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 pages 62-63, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4666.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4000595

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Cepheidae
Genus
Cepheus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Sarcoptiformes
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
C. L. Koch
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Cepheus Koch, 1835 sec. Behan-Pelletier & Lindo, 2019

References

  • Matthews, J. V. Jr. & Telka, A. (1997): Insect fossils from the Yukon. In: Danks, H. V. & Downes, J. A. (Eds.), Insects of the Yukon. Biological Survey of Canada (Terrestrial Arthropods), Ottawa, pp. 911 - 962.
  • Powell, J. M. & Skaley, L. S. (1975) Arthropods from forest litter under Lodgepole pine infected with comandra blister rust. Northern Forest Research Centre (Edmonton), Information Report NOR-X- 130, 33 pp.
  • 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
  • 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
  • Pielou, D. P. & Verma, A. N. (1968) The arthropod fauna associated with the birch bracket fungus, Polyporus betulinus, in Eastern Canada. The Canadian Entomologist, 100, 1179 - 1199. https: // doi. org / 10.4039 / Ent 1001179 - 11
  • 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.
  • Berlese, A. (1908) Elenco di generi e specie nouve di acari. Redia, 5, 1 - 16.