Neocarus texanus Chamberlin & Mulaik 1942
Authors/Creators
- 1. Laboratório de Estudos Subterrâneos, Departamento de Ecologia e Biologia Evolutiva, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Via Washington Luís, km 235, Caixa Postal 676, CEP 13565 - 905, São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil.
- 2. Department of Agriculture Food Natural Science Engineering (DAFNE), University of Foggia, Via Napoli 25, 71122, Foggia, Italy.
- 3. Departamento de Zoologia e Botânica, Instituto de Biociências, Letras e Ciências Exatas (IBILCE), Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Rua Cristóvão Colombo 2265, São José do Rio Preto CEP 15054 - 000, Brazil
Description
6.21. Neocarus texanus Chamberlin & Mulaik, 1942 *
Opilioacarus (Neocarus) texanus Vázquez & Klompen 2002: 318, figs. 1N, Q–V, 2H, 3C, 3F, 4D, 5B, 7D, 8D, 10F, 11D (redescription, new diagnosis)
Neocarus arizonicus Chamberlin & Mulaik 1942: 128–129, no figs.; Hammen 1966: 4 (junior synonym).
Neocarus texanus Chamberlin & Mulaik 1942: 127–128, plate I, figs. 1–9, plate II, figs. 10–20 (original description); Hammen 1966: 5, figs 1–21 (redescription without checking types); Vázquez & Klompen 2015: 544–545, figs. 1C, 3C, 6C, 7C (redescription, new distribution)
Holotype: No information about the life stage, USA. Whereabouts unknown; according to Chamberlin & Mulaik (1942), types deposited in University of Utah, but the material was sent to the American Museum of Natural History many decades ago (Christy Bill, pers. comm.) and then moved to Cornell University (Ofelia Delgado, pers. comm.) but not found. The material is assumed to be lost.
Distribution: Texas, Arizona (USA); Guerrero (Mexico).
Etymology: Named after the state in which the original material was collected.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Chamberlin & Mulaik
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Opilioacarida
- Family
- Opilioacaridae
- Genus
- Neocarus
- Species
- texanus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Neocarus texanus Chamberlin, 1942 sec. Araújo, Palma & Feres, 2020
References
- Chamberlin, R. V. & Mulaik, S. (1942) On a new family in the Notostigmata. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 55, 125 - 132.
- Vazquez, M. M. & Klompen, H. (2002) The family Opilioacaridae (Acari: Parasitiformes) in North and Central America, with description of four new species. Acarologia, 42, 299 - 322.
- Hammen, L. van der (1966) Studies on Opilioacarida (Arachnida) I. Description of Opilioacarus texanus (Chamberlin & Mulaik) and revised classification of the genera. Zoologische Verhandelingen, 86, 3 - 80.
- Vazquez, M. M. & Klompen, H. (2015) The family Opilioacaridae (Parasitiformes: Opilioacarida) in Mexico, description of two new species and notes on biology and geographical distribution. Zootaxa, 3957 (5), 535 - 552. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3957.5.3