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Cepheus corae Jacot 1928

Description

Cepheus corae Jacot, 1928

Geographic Location: AK: Fairbanks, Fort Richardson; Anchorage (Hammer 1955a); Brooks Range; Fairbanks Region (Behan 1978a); YT: Richardson Mtns; Ogilvie Mtns; Yukon Tintina (Behan-Pelletier 1997b); BC: Interior (Battigelli et al. 2004); Walbran Valley (Lindo et al. 2008; Lindo 2010); AB: EMEND Site (Lindo & Visser 2004); QC: Abitibi (Déchêne & Buddle 2009, 2010); Timmins 54°60’N, 67°00’W (Behan 1978a); Gatineau Park (Pielou 1966; Pielou & Verma 1968); Mont Tremblant (Behan et al. 1978); Morgan Arboretum (Marshall 1968; Sylvain & Buddle 2010); St-Paulin (Doblas-Miranda et al. 2014); NL: between Corner Brook and Little Grand Lake (Dwyer et al. 1997, 1998).

Habitats: boreal and temperate forest litter including Western redcedar, beech, Black spruce; Balsam fir forests; Polyporus bracket fungi.

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 62, 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
Jacot
Species
corae
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Cepheus corae Jacot, 1928 sec. Behan-Pelletier & Lindo, 2019

References

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  • 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.
  • 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
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  • Dwyer, E., Larson, D. J. & Thompson, I. D. (1998) Oribatid mite communities of old Balsam fir (Abies balsamea (L. )) forests of Western Newfoundland, Canada. Pedobiologia, 42 (4), 331 - 347.