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Leptolaelaps lambda Evans
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Leptolaelaps lambda Evans
Leptolaelaps lambda Evans, 1957: 47.
Leptolaelaps lambda: Karg, 1983: 391; 1997: 216.
Specimens examined: Site 941, 1 female.
Leptolaelaps lambda was described from 3 specimens from Knysna (Evans, 1957), and is now recorded from a single specimen from Cape Town. The species is presumed to be predatory, but is obviously rare.
Notes
Published as part of Halliday, R. B., 2005, Predatory mites from crops and pastures in South Africa: potential natural enemies of redlegged earth mite Halotydeus destructor (Acari: Penthaleidae), pp. 11-64 in Zootaxa 1079 on page 36, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.170355
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Evans
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Mesostigmata
- Family
- Leptolaelapidae
- Genus
- Leptolaelaps
- Species
- lambda
- Taxon rank
- species
References
- Evans, G. O. (1957) A revision of the genus Leptolaelaps Berl. with a description of an allied genus, Pseudopachylaelaps n. gen. (Mesostigmata: Laelaptidae). Annals of the Natal Museum, 14, 45 - 57.
- Karg, W. (1983) Systematic investigation of the predatory mite family Leptolaelapidae Karg, 1978 (Acarina, Parasitiformes). Zoologische Jahrbucher Abteilung fur Systematik, Okologie und Geographie der Tiere, 110, 377 - 396.