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Twarntaturus alphus Cook 1986

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Twarntaturus alphus Cook, 1986

Twarntaturus alphus Cook, 1986: 268; Harvey, 1998b: 139.

Material examined. 3 males, 1 female, Saddle-tree Creek, Bunya Mountains National Park, Qld., Australia, 19 November 2003; 1 female, Big Crystal Creek, Paluma Range National Park, Qld., 18°58.754'S 146°15.231'E, 21 October 2005; 1 male, Dalrymple Creek, Goomburra Forest Reserve, Queensland, Australia, 27°58.781'S 152°20.621 E, 5 November 2005.

Remarks. Previously reported from northern New South Wales. Cook (1986) didn’t report this species from locations of certain hyporheic origin.

Notes

Published as part of Smit, Harry, 2007, New Records of Hyporheic Water Mites from Australia, with a Description of Two New Genera and Ten New Species (Acari: Hydrachnidia), pp. 97-116 in Records of the Australian Museum 59 (2) on page 105, DOI: 10.3853/j.0067-1975.59.2007.1486, http://zenodo.org/record/4685907

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Biodiversity

Event date
2003-11-19 , 2005-10-21 , 2005-11-05
Verbatim event date
2003-11-19 , 2005-10-21 , 2005-11-05
Scientific name authorship
Cook
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Actinedida
Family
Aturidae
Genus
Twarntaturus
Species
alphus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Twarntaturus alphus Cook, 1986 sec. Smit, 2007

References

  • Cook, D. R., 1986. Water mites from Australia. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 40: 1 - 568.
  • Harvey, M. S., 1998 b. The Australian Water Mites. A Guide to Families and Genera. Monographs on Invertebrate Taxonomy 4. Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing, 150 pp.