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Malaconothrus mollisetosus Hammer 1952

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Malaconothrus mollisetosus Hammer, 1952

Geographic Location: AK: Fort Richardson (Hammer 1955a); Fairbanks Region (Behan 1978a); YT: Porcupine Plain; Ogilvie Mtns (Behan-Pelletier 1997b); NT: Yellowknife (Hammer 1952a); AB: ABMI Sites (Meehan et al. 2019); MB: Churchill (Hammer 1952a); QC: northern region; Timmins 54°60’N, 67°00’W (Behan 1978a).

Habitats: muskeg.

Distribution: Holarctic.

Remarks: This species was considered a junior synonym of M. monodactylus (Michael, 1888) by Subías (2004), but was retained as a distinct species by Colloff (2013).

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 45-46, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4666.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4000595

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Biodiversity

Family
Malaconothridae
Genus
Malaconothrus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Sarcoptiformes
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Hammer
Species
mollisetosus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Malaconothrus mollisetosus Hammer, 1952 sec. Behan-Pelletier & Lindo, 2019

References

  • Hammer, M. (1955 a) Alaskan oribatids. Acta Arctica, 7, 1 - 36.
  • 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.
  • Hammer, M. (1952 a) Investigations of the Microfauna of Northern Canada. Part I. Oribatidae. Acta Arctica, 4, 1 - 108.
  • 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
  • Michael, A. D. (1888) British Oribatidae. Vols. I and II. Ray Soc., London. 656 pp.
  • Subias, L. S. (2004) Listado sistematico, sinonimico y biogeografico de los acaros oribatidos (Acariformes, Oribatida) del mundo (1758 - 2002). Graellsia, 1982, 1 - 570. https: // doi. org / 10.3989 / graellsia. 2004. v 60. iExtra. 218
  • Colloff, M. J. (2013) Species-groups and biogeography of the oribatid mite family Malaconothridae (Oribatida: Malaconothroidea), with new species from the south-western Pacific region. Zootaxa, 3722 (4), 401 - 438. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3722.4.1