Published May 19, 2016 | Version v1
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Asca deleoni Moraes, Britto, Mineiro & Halliday, 2016, nom. nov.

Description

Asca deleoni nom. nov. (new replacement name)

Asca plumosa De Leon, 1967a: 2 (preoccupied by Asca plumosa Wood, 1966: 43). Asca plumosa.— De Leon, 1967b: 48; Karg, 1979b: 262.

TYPE DEPOSITORY: author’s personal collection.

TYPE LOCALITY AND HABITAT: about half-way between Valencia and Sangre Grande, Churchill-Roosevelt Highway, Trinidad & Tobago, on Miconia ciliata [Plantae: Melastomaceae].

ETYMOLOGY: The new name honours the author of the name being replaced, D. De Leon.

Notes

Published as part of De Moraes, Gilberto J., Britto, Erika P. J., Mineiro, Jefferson L. De C. & Halliday, Bruce, 2016, Catalogue of the mite families Ascidae Voigts & Oudemans, Blattisociidae Garman and Melicharidae Hirschmann (Acari: Mesostigmata), pp. 1-299 in Zootaxa 4112 (1) on page 92, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4112.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/399477

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Mesostigmata
Family
Ascidae
Genus
Asca
Species
deleoni
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic status
nom. nov.
Taxonomic concept label
Asca deleoni Moraes, Britto, Mineiro & Halliday, 2016

References

  • De Leon, D. (1967 a) Some mites of the Caribbean Area: Part I. Acarina on Plants in Trinidad, West Indies. Allen Press, Inc. Lawrence, Kansas, 46 pp.
  • Wood, T. G. (1966) Three new species of Asca v. Heyden (Acari: Blattisociidae) from New Zealand, and records of Asca from some Southern Pacific Islands. New Zealand Journal of Science, 9, 41 - 49.
  • De Leon, D. (1967 b) Some mites of the Caribbean Area: Part II. The Genus Asca in the Caribbean Area (Acarina: Ascidae). Allen Press, Inc. Lawrence, Kansas, 20 pp. [pp. 47 - 66]
  • Karg, W. (1979 b) Zur Kenntnis der Raubmilbengattungen Cheiroseius Berlese, 1916, Asca v. Heyden, 1826 und Halolaelaps Berlese et Trouessart, 1889 (Acarina, Parasitiformes). Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin, 55, 251 - 267.