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Gamasellus falciger

Description

140. Gamasellus falciger (G. & R. Canestrini, 1881)

Gamasus falciger G. & R. Canestrini, 1881: 1080.

Gamasus falciger.—G. & R. Canestrini, 1882: 53; G. Canestrini, 1884b: 1591.

Cyrtolaelaps falciger.— Berlese, 1892a: 4.

Cyrtolaelaps (Gamasellus) falciger.— Berlese, 1892f: 61; Ryke, 1962a: 16; 1962b: 157.

Gamasellus falciger.— Berlese, 1906: 278; Schweizer, 1922: 34; Vitzthum, 1931a: 142; Baker & Wharton, 1952: 64; Ryke, 1958: 121; Lee, 1970: 131.

Gamasus hungaricus Supino, 1894: 195. Synonymy by Berlese (1906).

Gamasus hungaricus.— Tietze, 1899: 945.

Cyrtolaelaps sertatus Willmann, 1941: 21. Synonymy by Ryke (1962a).

Gamasellus sertatus.— Lee, 1970: 131.

Type depository. G. falciger: unknown; G. hungaricus: unknown; G. sertatus: Zoologische Staatssammlung München, Munich, Germany.

Type locality and habitat. G. falciger: Oliero, near Bassano del Grappa, Italy, 16 May 1881, on moss; G. hungaricus: Hungary, under stone; C. sertatus: Dubrava, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 30 March 1913, from unspecified substrate.

Notes

Published as part of Castilho, Raphael C., Silva, Edmilson S., De, Gilberto J. & Halliday, Bruce, 2016, Catalogue of the family Ologamasidae Ryke (Acari: Mesostigmata), pp. 1-147 in Zootaxa 4197 (1) on page 49, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.168445

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Mesostigmata
Family
Ologamasidae
Genus
Gamasellus
Species
falciger
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype

References

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  • Canestrini, G. & Canestrini, R. (1882) I Gamasi Italiani. Atti della Societa Veneto - Trentina di Scienze Naturali, Padua, 8, 1 - 82, pls. I - VII.
  • Canestrini, G. (1884 b) Prospetto dell' acarofauna Italiana. Famiglia dei Gamasini. Atti del Reale Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Series 6, 2, 1563 - 1607.
  • Berlese, A. (1892 a) Acari, Myriopoda et Scorpiones hucusque in Italia reperta, 63, 17 text pp., pls. 1 - 10. [reprint by Junk, The Hague, 1979]
  • Berlese, A. (1892 f) Acari, Myriopoda et Scorpiones hucusque in Italia reperta. Ordo Mesostigmata (Gamasidae). Tipografia del Seminario, Padua, 143 pp. [reprint by Junk, The Hague, 1979]
  • Ryke, P. A. J. (1962 a) A revision of the subgenera Cyrtolaelaps Berlese and Gamasellus Berlese of the genus Cyrtolaelaps Berlese and descriptions of new species (Acarina: Rhodacaridae). Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa, 7, 1 - 59.
  • Berlese, A. (1906) Monografia dei genere Gamasus Latr. Redia, 3, 66 - 304, pls. I - XIX.
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  • Willmann, C. (1941) Die Acari der Hohlen der Balkanhalbinsel. (Nach dem Material der " Biospeologica balcanica "). Studien aus dem Gebiete der Allgemeinen Karstforschung, der Wissenschftlichen Hohlenkunde, der Eiszeitforschung und den Nachbargebieten, Biologische Serie, 8, 1 - 80.