Acaphyllisa tuberculumae

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Eriophyoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Chelicerata Classis: Arachnida Subclassis: Acari Superordo: Acariformes Ordo: Trombidiformes Subordo: Prostigmata Cohort: Eupodina Superfamilia: Eriophyoidea

Familia: Eriophyidae
Subfamilia: Phyllocoptinae
Tribus: Acaricalini
Genus: Acaphyllisa
Species: Acaphyllisa tuberculumae

Name

• Acaphyllisa tuberculumae Li, Xue & Hong, 2012

Holotype: Department of Entomology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Jiangsu Province, China. Female (slide number NJAUEri789B, marked Holotype), from Populus sp. (Salicaceae).

Type locality: Xining City, Qinghai Province, P. R. China, 36°38'18"N, 101°45'27"E, elevation 2241m, 21 July 2007, coll. Xiao-Feng Xue.

Etymology: The specific designation tuberculumae is from the character of dorsal opisthosomal microtubercles, “tuberculum” in Latin; masculine in gender.

References

• Li, Hao-Sen, Xiao-Feng Xue & Xiao-Yue Hong, 2012: Eriophyoid mites from Qinghai Province, northwestern China with descriptions of nine new species (Acari, Eriophyoidea). ZooKeys, 196: 47–107. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.196.2726.