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Gamasellus tasmanicus Womersley 1956

Description

176. Gamasellus tasmanicus (Womersley, 1956)

Digamasellus tasmanicus Womersley, 1956b: 538. Cyrtolaelaps tasmanicus.— Womersley, 1961: 194. Cyrtolaelaps (Gamasellus) tasmanicus.— Ryke, 1962a: 55. Gamasellus tasmanicus.— Lee, 1970: 137.

Type depository. South Australian Museum, Adelaide, Australia.

Type locality and habitat. Mount Wellington, Tasmania, Australia, 27 July 1943, on moss.

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 55, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.168445

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Event date
1943-07-27
Verbatim event date
1943-07-27
Scientific name authorship
Womersley
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Mesostigmata
Family
Ologamasidae
Genus
Gamasellus
Species
tasmanicus
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Gamasellus tasmanicus Womersley, 1956 sec. Castilho, Silva, De & Halliday, 2016

References

  • Womersley, H. (1956 b) On some new Acarina - Mesostigmata from Australia, New Zealand and New Guinea. Journal of the Linnean Society, Zoology, 42, 505 - 599.
  • Womersley, H. (1961) New species of Acarina from the intertidal zone in Netherlands New Guinea. Zoologische Mededelingen, 37 (12), 189 - 209.
  • 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.