Ommatocepheus Berlese 1913
Authors/Creators
- 1. Colegio de Postgraduados, Campus Montecillo, Texcoco, Estado de México, México
- 2. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Mar del Plata, Argentina
- 3. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Facultad de Ciencias, Departamento de Ecología y Recursos Naturales, Laboratorio de Ecología y Sistemática de Microartrópodos, Circuito Exterior s / n, Ciudad Universitaria, Coyoacán, 04510 Ciudad de México, México
Description
Genus Ommatocepheus Berlese, 1913
Type species: Ommatocepheus ocellatus (Michael, 1882).
Keys to all known species and subspecies of Ommatocepheus (except fossils)
1. Short lamellar protrusions, the distal ends do not touch each other.............................................. 2
- Long lamellar protrusions, the distal ends touch each other.................................................... 4
2. Lamellae and lamellar projections reduced, do not reach rostrum border (515–569 × 213–338)................................................................................. O. parvilamellatus Pérez-Íñigo & Pérez-Íñigo jr., 1996
- Lamellae and lamellar protrusions well developed........................................................... 3
3. Notogaster reticulated, seta c present (605–712 × 445–516)..................... O. reticulatus Pérez-Íñigo & Peña, 1997
- Notogaster foveolate, seta c absent (506–590 × 308–374)..................... O. crassisetosus Pérez-Íñigo et Peña, 1996
4. Interlamellar setae claviform............................................................................ 5
- Interlamellar setae different............................................................................. 6
5. Notogastral setae straight and acuminated (474 × 300)................... O. clavatus clavatus Woolley et Higgins, 1964
- Notogastral setae curved club-shaped, unilaterally rugose (477–620 × 280–360)........ O. clavatus japonicus Aoki, 1974
6. Interlamellar setae lanceolate, short adanal setae (565–620 × 329–395).................................................................... O. ocellatus (Michael, 1882) (See illustrations in Travé 1963; Colloff 1984; Pérez-Íñigo 1997)
- Interlamellar setae rod-shaped, very long and thick adanal setae (547–658 × 352–400)............... O. quetzalli sp. nov.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Berlese
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Sarcoptiformes
- Family
- Cepheusidae
- Genus
- Ommatocepheus
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Ommatocepheus Berlese, 1913 sec. Tobar, Martínez, Palacios-Vargas & Colina, 2025
References
- Berlese, A. (1913) Acari nuovi, Manipoli VII-VIII. Redia, 9 (1), 77-111.
- Michael, A. D. (1882) Further notes on British Oribatidae. Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society, 2 (1), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2818.1882.tb00175.x
- Perez-Inigo, C. & Pena, M. A. (1997) Acaros oribatidos (Acari, Oribatei) de Gran Canaria (III). Boletin-Asociacion Espanola de Entomologia, 21 (3 - 4), 165-183.
- Woolley, T. A. & Higgins, H. (1964) A new species of Ommatocepheus Berlese, 1913, from North Carolina. (Acarina: Oribatei, Carabodidae). Transactions of the American Microscopical Society, 83 (1), 26-28. https://doi.org/10.2307/3224837
- Aoki, J. (1974) A new subspecies of the genus Ommatocepheus from Mt. Odaigahara. Bulletin of the National Science Museum, 17 (1), 53-55.
- Trave, J. (1963) Ecologie et biologie des Oribates (Acariens) saxicoles et arboricoles. Vie et Milieu, Supplement, 14, 1-267.
- Colloff, M. J. (1984) Notes on two lichenophagous oribatid mites from Ailsa Craig (Acari: Cryptostigmata). The Glasgow Naturalist, 20 (Part 5), 451-457.