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Protogamasellopsis corticalis Evans & Purvis 1987

Description

88. Protogamasellopsis corticalis Evans & Purvis, 1987

Protogamasellopsis corticalis Evans & Purvis, 1987: 856.

Protogamasellopsis corticalis.— Karg, 1994a: 124; Karg, 1994b: 208; Shaw, 1999: 45; Karg, 2007: 124.

TYPE DEPOSITORY: Natural History Museum, London, England.

TYPE LOCALITY AND HABITAT: Saint Helena [South Atlantic island], Jamestown, public gardens, under the dead bark of a Citrus sp. [Rutaceae] (possibly imported from Cape Province, South Africa).

Notes

Published as part of Castilho, Raphael C., De Moraes, Gilberto J. & Halliday, Bruce, 2012, 3471, pp. 1-69 in Zootaxa 3471 on page 38

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
DEPOSITORY
Family
Rhodacaridae
Genus
Protogamasellopsis
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Mesostigmata
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Evans & Purvis
Species
corticalis
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Protogamasellopsis corticalis &, 1987 sec. Castilho, Moraes & Halliday, 2012

References

  • Evans, G. O. & Purvis, G. (1987) A new ascid mite from St Helena with observations on the Protogamasellus complex (Acari: Mesostigmata). Journal of Natural History, 21, 855 - 861.
  • Karg, W. (1994 a) Raubmilben der Ascidae, Ameroseiidae, Rhodacaridae und Macrochelidae auf dem Galapagos-Archipel (Acarina, Parasitiformes). Mitteilungen aus dem Museum fur Naturkunde in Berlin, 70, 113 - 131.
  • Karg, W. (1994 b) Raubmilben der Cohors Gamasina Leach (Acarina, Parasitiformes) vom Galapagos-Archipel. Mitteilungen aus dem Museum fur Naturkunde in Berlin, 70, 179 - 216.
  • Shaw, M. (1999) Mites and ticks from wedge-tailed shearwater (Puffinus pacificus) burrows on Masthead Island. Queensland Naturalist, 37, 43 - 47.
  • Karg, W. (2007) New taxonomic knowledge of soil-inhabiting predatory mites (Acarina, Gamasina: Rhodacaroidea, Dermanyssoidea, Ascoidea). Abhandlungen und Berichte des Naturkundemuseums Gorlitz, 78, 113 - 139.