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Stratiolaelaps scimitus Womersley

Description

Stratiolaelaps scimitus Womersley

Cosmolaelaps scimitus Womersley, 1956: 580.

Stratiolaelaps miles.— Domrow, 1988: 846.

Stratiolaelaps scimitus.— Walter & Campbell, 2003: 266.

Material examined: One each of female and male, soil under date palm, 8 November 2010; one female, unidentified plant species under date palm, 24°48'N, 46°42'E, 15 March 2011, IMISU Riyadh, coll. M. Kamran.

Notes

Published as part of Alatawi, Fahad Jaber, Kamran, Muhammad & Mirza, Jawwad Hassan, 2018, Mesostigmatic mites (Acari: Mesostigmata) of Saudi Arabia (excluding Phytoseioidea), new records and a key to the known species, pp. 373-394 in Zootaxa 4388 (3) on page 380, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4388.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/1188674

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
ONE, FEMALE, UNIDENTIFIED, PLANT, SPECIES, UNDER, DATE, PALM, IMISU, COLL
Event date
2011-03-15
Verbatim event date
2011-03-15
Scientific name authorship
Womersley
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Mesostigmata
Family
Laelapidae
Genus
Stratiolaelaps
Species
scimitus
Taxon rank
species

References

  • Womersley, H. (1956) On some new Acarina-Mesostigmata from Australia, New Zealand and New Guinea. The Journal of the Linnean Society of Zoology, London, 42, 505 - 599. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.1956. tb 02218. x
  • Domrow, R. (1988) Acari Mesostigmata parasitic on Australian vertebrates: an annotated checklist, keys and bibliography. Invertebrate Taxonomy, 1, 817 - 948. https: // doi. org / 10.1071 / IT 9870817
  • Walter, D. E. & Campbell, N. J. (2003) Exotic vs endemic biocontrol agents: would the real Stratiolaelaps miles (Berlese) (Acari: Mesostigmata: Laelapidae), please stand up? Biological Control, 26, 253 - 269. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / S 1049 - 9644 (02) 00171 - 8