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Nothrus C. L. Koch 1836

Description

Nothrus sp.

Geographic Locations and Habitats: AK: Seward Peninsula, near to Cape Espenberg, 66°28′22″N, 163°56′56″W, greyish tephra from Aniakchak eruption (Blackford et al. 2014); AB: Roy Berg Kinsella Research Ranch (Newton & Proctor 2013); ABMI Sites; Moose Pasture Research Site (Walter et al. 2014); ABMI Sites (Meehan et al. 2019); ON: Lake Superior, Granite Is., Black Bay, ring-billed gull nests (Freitag & Ryder 1973); QC: boreal claybelt region of Western Québec (Doblas-Miranda & Work 2015); NB: peatlands (Behan-Pelletier & Bissett 1994); NS: Cape Breton Highlands NP; southwest Nova Scotia uplands (Behan-Pelletier 2010; Behan-Pelletier et al. 1987); PE: (Behan-Pelletier 2010, Behan-Pelletier et al. 1987).

Family Trhypochthoniidae

Genus Mainothrus Choi, 1996

Notes

Published as part of Behan-Pelletier, Valerie M. & Lindo, Zoë, 2019, Checklist of oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) of Canada and Alaska, pp. 1-180 in Zootaxa 4666 (1) on pages 49-50, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4666.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4000595

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Nothridae
Genus
Nothrus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Sarcoptiformes
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
C. L. Koch
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Nothrus Koch, 1836 sec. Behan-Pelletier & Lindo, 2019

References

  • Blackford, J. J., Payne, R. J., Heggen, M. P., de la Riva Caballero, A. & van der Plicht, J. (2014) Age and impacts of the caldera-forming Aniakchak II eruption in western Alaska. Quaternary Research, 82, 85 - 95. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. yqres. 2014.04.013
  • Newton, J. S. & Proctor, H. C. (2013) A fresh look at weight-estimation models for soil mites (Acari). International Journal of Acarology, 39 (1), 72 - 85. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 01647954.2012.744351
  • Walter, D. E., Latonas, S., Byers, K. & Lumley, L. M. (2014) Almanac of Alberta Oribatida Part I. Ver. 2.4. Royal Alberta Museum, Edmonton, AB. 542 pp. Available from: https: // www. royalalbertamuseum. ca / research / lifeSciences / invertebrateZoology / research. cfm (accessed 20 March 2019)
  • Meehan, M. L., Song, Z., Lumley, L. M., Cobb, T. P. & Proctor, H. (2019) Soil mites as bioindicators of disturbance in the boreal forest in northern Alberta, Canada: Testing taxonomic sufficiency at multiple taxonomic levels. Ecological Indicators, 102, 349 - 368. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. ecolind. 2019.02.043
  • Freitag, R. & Ryder, J. P. (1973) An annotated list of arthropods collected from ring-billed gull nests on Granite Is., Black Bay, Lake Superior, 1972 and 1973. Entomological Society of Ontario, 104, 38 - 46.
  • Doblas-Miranda, E. & Work, T. T. (2015) Localized effects of coarse woody material on soil oribatid communities diminish over 700 years of stand development in black-spruce-feathermoss forests. Forests, 6, 914 - 928. https: // doi. org / 10.3390 / f 6040914
  • Behan-Pelletier, V. M. & Bissett, B. (1994) Oribatida of Canadian peatlands. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada, 169, 73 - 88. https: // doi. org / 10.4039 / entm 126169073 - 1
  • Behan-Pelletier, V. M., Lindquist, E. E. & Smith, I. M. (1987) Subclass Acari (mites and ticks). In: Lafontaine, J. D., Allyson, S., Behan-Pelletier, V. M., Borkent, A., Campbell, J. M., Hamilton, K. G. A., Martin, J. E. H. & Masner, L. (Eds.), The Insects, Spiders and Mites of Cape Breton Highlands National Park. Biosystematics Research Centre, Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, pp. 18 - 66.
  • Choi S. S. (1996) A new genus and a new species of aquatic oribatid mite (Acari: Oribatida) from Korea. Korean Journal of Soil Zoology, 1 (1), 1 - 4.