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Gamasodes Oudemans 1939

Description

Genus Gamasodes Oudemans, 1939

Gamasodes Oudemans, 1939a: 24.

Type species Gamasoides spiniger Oudemans 1936, by original designation.

Diagnosis of genus

Female with schizodorsal shield or completely divided dorsal shield; opisthogastric (rarely hologastric) shield with fewer than 18 pairs of setae; genital shield of female ­ shaped, with a single anterior point; setae al 1 and al 2 on palp genu of deutonymphs and adults spatulate; corniculi short, not extending to anterior margin of palp femur; tritosternum of male absent or rudimentary; femur II of deutonymph with one or two heavy spinelike ventral setae mounted on cuticular protrusions.

The complex nomenclatural history of the genus and its type species have been reviewed by Strenzke (1951) and Holzmann (1969). Detailed descriptions of the type species G. spiniger are given by Micherdzinski (1969) and Hyatt (1980).

Notes

Published as part of Halliday, R. B., Walter, D. E. & Polak, M., 2005, A new species of Gamasodes Oudemans from Australia (Acari: Parasitidae), pp. 17-30 in Zootaxa 1001 (1) on page 18, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1001.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/5048544

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Oudemans
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Mesostigmata
Family
Parasitidae
Genus
Gamasodes
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Gamasodes Oudemans, 1939 sec. Halliday, Walter & Polak, 2005

References

  • Oudemans, A. C. (1939 a) Neue Funde auf dem Gebiete der Systematik und der Nomenclatur der Acari III. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 126, 20 - 24.
  • Oudemans, A. C. (1936) Kritisch Historisch Overzicht der Acarologie, Deerde Gedeelte, 1805 - 1850. Band A, E. J. Brill, Leiden, 430 pp.
  • Strenzke, K. (1951) Die adulten Stadien von Gamasodes bispinosus und die systematische Stellung der Gattung Gamasodes (Acarina: Parasitiformes). Zoologischer Anzeiger, 147, 13 - 24.
  • Holzmann, C. (1969) Die Familie Parasitidae Oudemans 1901. Acarologie. Schriftenreihe fur Vergleichende Milbenkunde, 13, 2 - 55 + 23 Plates.
  • Micherdzinski, W. (1969) Die Familie Parasitidae Oudemans 1901 (Acarina, Mesostigmata). Zaklad Zoologii Systematycznej, Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Cracow, 690 pp.
  • Hyatt, K. H. (1980) Mites of the subfamily Parasitinae (Mesostigmata: Parasitidae) in the British Isles. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology, 38, 237 - 378.