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Protogamasellopsis dioscorus

Description

89. Protogamasellopsis dioscorus (Manson, 1972)

Protogamasellus dioscorus Manson, 1972: 437.

Protogamasellopsis dioscorus.— Evans & Purvis, 1987: 855; Karg, 1994a: 123; Karg, 1994b: 208; Karg, 2007: 124; Castilho & Moraes, 2010: 397.

TYPE DEPOSITORY: Collection of the Department of Agriculture, Levin, New Zealand.

TYPE LOCALITY AND HABITAT: New Zealand, Auckland International Airport, 19 June 1969, intercepted on yam [Dioscoreaceae] from Tonga.

Notes

Published as part of Castilho, Raphael C., De Moraes, Gilberto J. & Halliday, Bruce, 2012, 3471, pp. 1-69 in Zootaxa 3471 on page 38

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
DEPOSITORY , LOCALITY, AND, HABITAT
Event date
1969-06-19
Verbatim event date
1969-06-19
Scientific name authorship
Manson
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Mesostigmata
Family
Rhodacaridae
Genus
Protogamasellopsis
Species
dioscorus
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Protogamasellopsis dioscorus (Manson, 1972) sec. Castilho, Moraes & Halliday, 2012

References

  • Manson, D. C. M. (1972) A new mite of the genus Protogamasellus (Acarina: Ascidae). Acarologia, 13, 437 - 445.
  • Evans, G. O. & Purvis, G. (1987) A new ascid mite from St Helena with observations on the Protogamasellus complex (Acari: Mesostigmata). Journal of Natural History, 21, 855 - 861.
  • Karg, W. (1994 a) Raubmilben der Ascidae, Ameroseiidae, Rhodacaridae und Macrochelidae auf dem Galapagos-Archipel (Acarina, Parasitiformes). Mitteilungen aus dem Museum fur Naturkunde in Berlin, 70, 113 - 131.
  • Karg, W. (1994 b) Raubmilben der Cohors Gamasina Leach (Acarina, Parasitiformes) vom Galapagos-Archipel. Mitteilungen aus dem Museum fur Naturkunde in Berlin, 70, 179 - 216.
  • Karg, W. (2007) New taxonomic knowledge of soil-inhabiting predatory mites (Acarina, Gamasina: Rhodacaroidea, Dermanyssoidea, Ascoidea). Abhandlungen und Berichte des Naturkundemuseums Gorlitz, 78, 113 - 139.
  • Castilho, R. C. & de Moraes, G. J. (2010) Rhodacaridae mites (Acari: Mesostigmata: Rhodacaroidea) from the State of Sao Paulo, Brazil, with descriptions of a new genus and three new species. International Journal of Acarology, 36, 387 - 398.