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Gamasellus tragardhi Womersley 1942

Description

180. Gamasellus tragardhi (Womersley, 1942)

? Digamasellus tragardhi [sic] Womersley, 1942: 161. Cyrtolaelaps trägårdhi.— Womersley, 1961: 194.

Cyrtolaelaps (Gamasellus) tragardhi.— Ryke, 1962a: 55. Gamasellus tragardhi.— Lee, 1970: 135; 1973: 20.

Type depository. South Australian Museum, Adelaide, Australia.

Type locality and habitat. Adelaide, Australia, June 1935, on moss.

Note. Specimens reported by Womersley, 1956b: 537 as Digamasellus trägårdhi were described as Cyrtolaelaps cooperi Womersley, 1961.

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

Scientific name authorship
Womersley
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Mesostigmata
Family
Ologamasidae
Genus
Gamasellus
Species
tragardhi
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Gamasellus tragardhi Womersley, 1942 sec. Castilho, Silva, De & Halliday, 2016

References

  • Womersley, H. (1942) Additions to the Acarina - Parasitoidea of Australia. Part I. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 66, 142 - 171.
  • 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.
  • 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.