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Frontipoda (Flabellifrontipoda) neotropica Lundblad 1953

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Description

Frontipoda (Flabellifrontipoda) neotropica (Lundblad, 1953)

Flabellifrontipoda neotropica Lundblad, 1953: 458; Besch 1964: 178; Cekalovic 1976: 42; Cook 1980: 38, 1988: 44.

Material examined

Neuquén Province: 5 females, Arroyo Pilo Pil, 5 km from San Martín de los Andes, at crossing with road to Quila Quina, 14 November 1999.

Río Negro Province: 1 male, 1 nymph, Río Llogdconto, Nahuel Huapi National Park, 16 November 1999.

Chubut Province: 3 males, 2 nymphs, small stream with water milfoil Myriophyllum, Villa Futalaufquen, Los Alerces National Park, 18 November 1999; 1 female, Río Desaguadero at Villa Futalaufquen, Los Alerces National Park, 19 November 1999.

Santa Cruz Province: 1 female, Río Centinela, west of El Calafate, 24 November 1999.

Tierra del Fuego Province: 2 females, Río Pipo, Tierra del Fuego National Park, 28 November 1999; 1 female, Arroyo Guanaco, Tierra del Fuego National Park, 29 November 1999; 2 males + females, Río Olivia, east of Ushuaia, 29 November 1999.

Remarks

A widespread species, known from Colombia to Tierra del Fuego.

Other

Published as part of Smit, Harry, 2002, Rheophilic water mites from southern Argentina, with the description of one new genus and three new species (Acari: Hydrachnidia), pp. 1-23 in Zootaxa 103 on page 7, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.156012

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Oxidae
Genus
Frontipoda
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Trombidiformes
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Lundblad
Species
neotropica
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Frontipoda (Flabellifrontipoda) neotropica Lundblad, 1953 sec. Smit, 2002

References

  • Lundblad, O. (1953) Die Hydracarinenfauna von Colombia. Arkiv for Zoologi (s. 2), 5, 435 - 585.
  • Besch, W. (1964) Systematik und Verbreitung der sudamerikanischen rheophilen Hydrachnellen. Beitrage zur Neotropischen Fauna, 3, 77 - 194.
  • Cekalovic, K. T. (1976) Catalogo de los Arachnida: Scorpiones, Pseudoscorpiones, Opiliones, Acari, Araneae y Solifugae de la XII region de Chile, Magallanes incluyendo la Antarctica chilena (Chile). Gayana (Zool.), 37, 1 - 108. [cited in: K. O. Viets 1982, 1988]
  • Cook, D. R. (1980) Studies on neotropical water mites. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, 31, 1 - 645.