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Gamasellus pyriformis Berlese 1916

Description

161. Gamasellus pyriformis Berlese, 1916

Gamasellus pyriformis Berlese, 1916a: 161.

Cyrtolaelaps (Gamasellus) pyriformis.— Ryke, 1962a: 44. Gamasellus pyriformis.— Lee, 1970: 138; Hurlbutt, 1979: 175; Karg, 1997a: 77.

Type depository. Istituto Sperimentale per la Zoologia Agraria, Florence, Italy. Type locality and habitat. East Africa, in soil and litter.

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 52, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.168445

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Berlese
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Mesostigmata
Family
Ologamasidae
Genus
Gamasellus
Species
pyriformis
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Gamasellus pyriformis Berlese, 1916 sec. Castilho, Silva, De & Halliday, 2016

References

  • Berlese, A. (1916 a) Centuria seconda di Acari nuovi. Redia, 12, 125 - 177.
  • 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.
  • Lee, D. C. (1970) The Rhodacaridae (Acari: Mesostigmata); classification, external morphology and distribution of genera. Records of the South Australian Museum, 16 (3), 1 - 219.
  • Hurlbutt, H. W. (1979) Gamasellus (Acarina: Mesostigmata) from east African mountains. Acarologia, 20, 173 - 187.
  • Karg, W. (1997 a) Zur Kenntnis der Raubmilbencohors Gamasina Leach (Acarina, Parasitiformes) tropischer und subtropischer Gebiete. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin, 73, 63 - 88. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1002 / mmnz. 19970730110