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Achipteria Berlese 1885

Description

Achipteria sp.

Geographic Location and Habitats: AK: Umiat Mt., 69°N, 152°00’W (Hammer 1955a); YT: Southern lakes (Behan-Pelletier 1997b); BC: Upper Klanawa Mainline site, near Franklin River (Berch et al. 2001); AB: Trembling aspen, White spruce mesocosm (Cameron et al. 2013); ABMI Sites; Moose Pasture Research Site, Narrow Lake (Walter et al. 2014); ABMI Sites (Meehan et al. 2019); 35 km north of Fort McMurray (McAdams et al. 2018; as sp. 1 DEW); ON: Chalk River (Marshall 1972); Sudbury, White birch and Trembling aspen (St. John et al. 2002); QC: Morgan Arboretum (Marshall 1968); Abitibi (Déchêne & Buddle 2009, 2010); boreal claybelt region of Western Québec (Doblas-Miranda & Work 2015); NB: Maritime Lowlands (Behan-Pelletier 2010).

Genus Anachipteria Grandjean, 1932

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

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Achipteriidae
Genus
Achipteria
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Sarcoptiformes
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Berlese
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Achipteria Berlese, 1885 sec. Behan-Pelletier & Lindo, 2019

References

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  • 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.
  • Berch, S., Baumbrough, B., Battigelli, J., Kroeger, P., Strub, N. & de Montigny, L. (2001) Preliminary assessment of selected soil organisms under different conifer species.. Ministry of Forests, Research Branch Laboratory, Victoria BC, Canada, Research Report, 20, 27 pp.
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