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Rhodacarus coronatus Berlese 1920

Description

129. Rhodacarus coronatus Berlese, 1920

Rhodacarus coronatus Berlese, 1920: 165.

Rhodacarus (?) coronatus.— Athias-Henriot, 1961: 502.

Rhodacarus coronatus.— Lee, 1970: 29; Karg, 1971: 321; Bregetova & Shcherbak, 1977b: 261; Shcherbak, 1977: 76; Castagnoli & Pegazzano, 1985: 91; Karg, 1993: 333.

Rhodacarus (Rhodacarus) coronatus.— Shcherbak, 1980: 50.

Rhodacarus (?) coronatus forma simplex Athias-Henriot, 1961: 502 (unavailable infrasubspecific name, International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, Articles 15.2 and 45.6.3).

TYPE DEPOSITORY: Istituto Sperimentale per la Zoologia Agraria, Florence, Italy.

TYPE LOCALITY AND HABITAT: Italy, Firenze, Boboli and Vallombrosa, in moss.

NOTE: Athias-Henriot (1961) provisionally identified specimens from Italy as Rhodacarus (?) coronatus, and from Algeria as Rhodacarus (?) coronatus forma simplex. This ambiguity suggests that the name Rhodacarus coronatus conceals more than one species, and all identifications under this name must be considered as unconfirmed.

Notes

Published as part of Castilho, Raphael C., De Moraes, Gilberto J. & Halliday, Bruce, 2012, 3471, pp. 1-69 in Zootaxa 3471 on page 46

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Biodiversity

Collection code
DEPOSITORY , LOCALITY, AND, HABITAT
Family
Rhodacaridae
Genus
Rhodacarus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Mesostigmata
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Berlese
Species
coronatus
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Rhodacarus coronatus Berlese, 1920 sec. Castilho, Moraes & Halliday, 2012

References

  • Berlese, A. (1920) Centuria quinta di Acari nuovi. Redia, 14, 143 - 195.
  • Athias-Henriot, C. (1961) Mesostigmates (Urop. excl.) edaphiques mediterraneens (Acaromorpha, Anactinotrichida) (collect. Prof. H. Franz et C. Athias-Henriot). Premiere Serie. Acarologia, 3, 381 - 509.
  • Lee, D. C. (1970) Rhodacaridae (Acari: Mesostigmata); classification, external morphology and distribution of genera. Records of the South Australian Museum, 16 (3), 1 - 219.
  • Karg, W. (1971) Acari (Acarina), Milben. Unterordnung Anactinochaeta (Parasitiformes). Die freilebenden Gamasina (Gamasides), Raubmilben. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands, 59, 1 - 475.
  • Bregetova, N. G. & Shcherbak, G. I. (1977 b) Family Rhodacaridae Oudemans, 1902. In: Ghilyarov, M. S. & Bregetova, N. G. (eds). Key to the Soil - Inhabiting Mites (Mesostigmata). Nauka, Leningrad. pp. 256 - 307.
  • Shcherbak, G. I. (1977) Taxonomic position of certain species of mites of Rhodacarus Oudemans, 1902 genus (Parasitiformes, Gamasoidea). Vestnik Zoologii, 1977 (1), 74 - 80.
  • Karg, W. (1993) Acari (Acarina), Milben. Parasitiformes (Anactinochaeta). Cohors Gamasina Leach, Raubmilben. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands, 59, 1 - 523.
  • Shcherbak, G. I. (1980) Kleschi Seme i stva Rhodacaridae Palearktiki. Naukova Dumka, Kiev, 216 pp.