Published September 20, 2010 | Version v1
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Piona caligifera Koenike 1898

  • 1. Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Montenegro, Cetinjski put b. b., 81000 Podgorica, Serbia and Montenegro.
  • 2. Deaprtment of Biology, Indian School of Learning, I. S. M Annexe, P. O. - ISM, Dhanbad- 826004, Jharkhand, India.
  • 3. Resource Management and Environment Division Institute of Advanced Study in Science and Technology, Paschim Boragaon, P. O. Garchuk, Guwahati- 781035, Assam, India

Description

Piona caligifera (Koenike, 1898)

Records from the study area: Maharashtra—“ Piona indica “ Cook (1967); “ P. indica “ Prasad (1974).

Remark: Lundblad (1969) synonymized Piona indica Cook with P. caligifera (Koenike, 1898).

Habitat: Ponds and open wells.

Distribution: Madagascar, India, Sri Lanka.

Notes

Published as part of Pešić, Vladimir, Chatterjee, Tapas & Bordoloi, Sabitry, 2010, A checklist of the water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) of India, with new records and description of one new species, pp. 1-54 in Zootaxa 2617 (1) on page 30, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2617.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/197964

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Koenike
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Trombidiformes
Family
Pionidae
Genus
Piona
Species
caligifera
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Piona caligifera Koenike, 1898 sec. Pešić, Chatterjee & Bordoloi, 2010

References

  • Cook, D. R. (1967) Water mites from India. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, 9, 1 - 411.
  • Prasad, V. (1974) A catalogue of mites of India. Indira Acarology Publishing House, Ludhiana, 320 pp.
  • Lundblad, O. (1969) Indische Wassermilben, hauptsachlich aus Hinterindien. Arkiv for Zoology, 22, 1 - 126.