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Trichoribates copperminensis Hammer 1952

Description

Trichoribates copperminensis Hammer, 1952

Geographic Location: AK: Atqasuk; Seward Peninsula, Deering; Cape Krusenstern; Brooks Range, riverbed of Sagavanirtok River; Toolik Lake; Denali NP, Eielson, Wonder Lake (Behan 1978a; Behan- Pelletier 1985); YT: Ivvavik NP, British Mtns, 69°13’N, 140°05’W; Fish Creek, 69°27’N, 140°25’W; Kluane NP, Stills Road (Behan-Pelletier 1985); Richardson Mtns; Ogilvie Mtns (Behan-Pelletier 1997b); NT: Mackenzie Delta arctic and subarctic (Behan 1978a); Victoria Is., southwest of Collinson Inlet, 72°31’N, 115°44’W (Behan 1978a); NU: Coppermine (Hammer 1952a); BC: Interior (Battigelli et al. 2004); AB: ABMI Sites (Walter et al. 2014; Meehan et al. 2019).

Habitats: wet tundra meadow; spruce litter.

Distribution: Western Nearctic; eastern Palaearctic.

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

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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.
  • Hammer, M. (1952 a) Investigations of the Microfauna of Northern Canada. Part I. Oribatidae. Acta Arctica, 4, 1 - 108.
  • 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
  • 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