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Atractides gibberipalpis Piersig 1898

  • 1. Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Département Systématique et Évolution, CNRS UMR- 7205, case postale 53, 57 rue Cuvier, F- 75231 Paris cedex 05 (France) and Biesingerstr. 11, 72070 Tübingen (Germany) reinhard. gerecke @ uni-tuebingen. de

Description

Atractides gibberipalpis Piersig, 1898

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Sardinia. I 1162, 1 ♂, 1 dn (MNHN).

Corsica. F HM 28, 1 ♂; F HM 29, 1 ♂ (Coll. HM).

Sardinia. I 1162, 2 ♂♂ (Coll. RG).

PUBLISHED RECORDS. — Corsica. Porto, middle course (200-1000 m) (no specimen numbers specified) (Santucci 1971); benf 85, 1 ♂; benf 90, 1 ♂, 1 ♀ (Gerecke & Di Sabatino 2013, MCSNV).

DISTRIBUTION. — Most parts of Europe, Asia Minor. Not reported from Northern Fennoscandia. First record from Sardinia.

HABITAT. — Rhithrobiont. Low and medium order streams, in the area covered from 200 to 900 m.

Notes

Published as part of Gerecke, Reinhard, 2014, The water mites of the genus Atractides Koch, 1837 (Acari, Hydrachnidia: Hygrobatidae) in Corsica and Sardinia, pp. 735-759 in Zoosystema 36 (4) on page 748, DOI: 10.5252/z2014n4a3th, http://zenodo.org/record/5159469

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
HM , MCSNV
Family
Hygrobatidae
Genus
Atractides
Kingdom
Animalia
Material sample ID
HM 28 , HM 29
Order
Trombidiformes
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Piersig
Species
gibberipalpis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Atractides gibberipalpis Piersig, 1898 sec. Gerecke, 2014

References

  • SANTUCCI J. 1971. - Contribution a l'etude de la repartition des Hydracariens (Hydrachnellae) des eaux superficielles d'un torrent de Corse, Le Porto. Annales de la Faculte des Sciences, Marseille 45: 81 - 99.
  • GERECKE R. & DI SABATINO A. 2013. - The water mites (Hydrachnidia and Halacaridae) of the collection Daniele Benfatti at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Verona. Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona 37: 67 - 112.