Achipteria

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Achipterioidea

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: Oribatida Infraordo: Desmonomata Subordo: Brachypylina Infraordo: Poronoticae Superfamilia: Achipterioidea

Familia: Achipteriidae
Genus: Achipteria
Subgenera: A. (Achipteria) – A. (Izuachipteria)

Overview of species

• Subgenus: Achipteria (Achipteria)
  

A. alpina – A. imperfecta – A. mayariana – A. nitens – A. punctata – A. sellnicki – etc.

• Subgenus: Achipteria (Izuachipteria)
  

A. (I.) alpestris – A. (I.) imperfecta

Name

Achipteria Berlese, 1885: 127.

Type species: Oribata nicoletii Berlese, 1883 [=Acarus coleoptratus Linnaeus, 1758] (Note, originally as an unspecified subgroup (subgenus?) under Oribata without specifying type species, only says "(Achipteria). (Oribata Nicoletii, nitens etc.)."

Gender: feminine [?]

References

Primary references

• Berlese, A. 1885. Acarorum systematis specimen. Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 17: 121–135. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Ermilov S.G., Rybalov L.B. & Kemal A.A., 2011. Description of the morphology of the first Ethiopian Achipteria Berlese, 1885 (Acari: Oribatida). Genus 22(4): 653–660. Full article.
• Maruyama, I., Bayartogtokh, B. & Shimano, S. 2016. Rediscovery of Achipteria setulosa, with remarks on Japanese species of Achipteriidae and the proposal of species-groups (Acari, Oribatida). ZooKeys 578: 1–13. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.578.7603.Reference page. 
• Palacios-Vargas & Socarrás-Rivero, A.A. 2001. A new Cuban Achipteria (Oribatei, Achipteriidae) from Pinares of Mayari, Cuba. Solenodon 1: 1-4. Reference page. 
• Seniczak, A. & Seniczak, S. 2018. Morphological ontogeny of Achipteria punctata (Acari: Oribatida: Achipteriidae). Pp 54–72 In Zhang, Z-Q., Seeman, O., Fuangarworn, M. & Fan, Q-H. (eds.). Ontogeny and morphological diversity in immature mites (Part I). Zootaxa 1–224. Reference page.  Zootaxa 4540(1): 54–72. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4540.1.7 Reference page. 
• Seniczak, S., Seniczak, A., Kaczmarek, S. & Marquardt, T. 2019. Morphological ontogeny, ecology and some biological parameters of Achipteria nitens (Acari: Oribatida: Achipteriidae). Pp 30–46 In Zhang, Z-Q., Fuangarworn, M., Seeman, O. & Mironov, S.V. {eds.). Ontogeny and morphological diversity in immature mites (Part II). Zootaxa 4717(1): 1–230. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4717.1.1 Reference page.  Zootaxa 4717(1): 30–46. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4717.1.5 Reference page. 

Links

• BHL bibliography
• Achipteria – Taxon details on Encyclopedia of Life (EOL).
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2019. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Achipteria.
• ION

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