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Opilioacarus aenigmus Dunlop, Sempf & Wunderlich 2008
- 1. Laboratório de Estudos Subterrâneos, Departamento de Ecologia e Biologia Evolutiva, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Via Washington Luís, km 235, Caixa Postal 676, CEP 13565 - 905, São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil.
- 2. Department of Agriculture Food Natural Science Engineering (DAFNE), University of Foggia, Via Napoli 25, 71122, Foggia, Italy.
- 3. Departamento de Zoologia e Botânica, Instituto de Biociências, Letras e Ciências Exatas (IBILCE), Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Rua Cristóvão Colombo 2265, São José do Rio Preto CEP 15054 - 000, Brazil
Description
7.1. † Opilioacarus aenigmus Dunlop, Sempf & Wunderlich, 2008
Opilioacarus aenigmus Dunlop et al. 2008: 65–66, figs. 1–5 (original description)
Holotype: RUSSIA. The fossil described here derives from the Wunderlich collection (F1882/BB/AC/CJW) and will eventually be transferred either to the Senckenberg Museum (Frankfurt am Main) or the Ĝrlitz Museum.
Distribution: Baltic amber, exact locality not recorded, but probably from the vicinity of Kaliningrad, Baltic coast of Russia. It is generally dated at Palaeogene (Eocene), with an approximate age of 45–50 Ma.
Etymology: Named after the unresolved questions about its identity as an Opilioacarus or Neocarus.
Notes
Published as part of Araújo, Marcel Santos De, Palma, Antonella Di & Feres, Reinaldo José Fazzio, 2020, Catalog of the Opilioacarida (Acari: Parasitiformes), pp. 332-356 in Zootaxa 4895 (3) on page 348, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4895.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/4326711
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Opilioacaridae
- Genus
- Opilioacarus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Opilioacarida
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Dunlop, Sempf & Wunderlich
- Species
- aenigmus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Opilioacarus aenigmus Dunlop, 2008 sec. Araújo, Palma & Feres, 2020