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Hydrozetes Berlese 1902

Description

Hydrozetes sp.

Geographic Location and Habitats: AK: northern coastal plain; Atqasuk; Brooks Range; Fairbanks Region; Denali NP (Behan 1978a); Seward Peninsula, near to Cape Espenberg (66°28′22″N, 163°56′56″W, greyish tephra from Aniakchak eruption (Blackford et al. 2014); YT: modern and interglacial fossils (Matthews & Telka 1997); Richardson Mtns (Behan-Pelletier 1997b); AB: ABMI Sites; Moose Pasture Research Site (as sp. E RAN); ABMI Sites (4 spp.) (Walter et al. 2014); (Meehan et al. 2019); fossil (Baker & Wighton 1983); QC: northern region (Behan 1978a); NB: peatlands (Behan-Pelletier & Bissett 1994); NS: Sable Is., pond margins (Majka et al. 2007); Cape Breton Highlands NP (Behan-Pelletier 2010; Behan- Pelletier et al. 1987).

Family Limnozetidae

Genus Limnozetes Hull 1916

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

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Hydrozetidae
Genus
Hydrozetes
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Sarcoptiformes
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Berlese
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Hydrozetes Berlese, 1902 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.
  • Blackford, J. J., Payne, R. J., Heggen, M. P., de la Riva Caballero, A. & van der Plicht, J. (2014) Age and impacts of the caldera-forming Aniakchak II eruption in western Alaska. Quaternary Research, 82, 85 - 95. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. yqres. 2014.04.013
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Baker, G. T. & Wighton, D. C. (1983) Fossil aquatic oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida, Hydrozetidae, Hydrozetes) from the Paleocene of South-Central Alberta, Canada. The Canadian Entomologist, 773 - 775. https: // doi. org / 10.4039 / Ent 116773 - 5
  • 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
  • Majka, C. G., Behan-Pelletier, V. M., Bajerlein, D., Bloszyk, J., Krantz, G. W., Lucas, Z., O'Connor, B. & Smith, I. M. (2007) New records of mites (Arachnida: Acari) from Sable Is., Nova Scotia, Canada. The Canadian Entomologist, 139 (5), 690 - 699. https: // doi. org / 10.4039 / n 06 - 103
  • Hull, J. E. (1916) Terrestrial Acari of the Tyne Province, I. Oribatidae. Transactions of the Natural History Society of Northumberland, New Series, 4, 381 - 410.