Brachytydeus catenulatus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Tydeoidea
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: Tydeoidea

Familia: Tydeidae
Subfamilia: Tydeinae
Genus: Brachytydeus
Species: Brachytydeus catenulatus

Name

Brachytydeus catenulatus (Thor, 1931)

• Type locality: in moss (Norway)

• Holotype: Lost. (After Thor's death, his entire collection was destroyed in accordance with his will.)

Synonyms

Objective synonyms

• Retetydeus catenulatus, original combination, combination also used by Mehl (1979: 35)
• Retetydeus catenulata, incorrect subsequent spelling (gender) used by Momen & Lundqvist (1995: 41, 43) and also used by Silva et al. (2016: 12)
• Lorryia catenulata, subsequent combination used by Baker (1968: 1001) and by Khaustov (2023: 502)
• Tydeus catenulata, incorrect subsequent spelling (gender) used by Momen & Lundqvist (1995: 43, 54) and reported by Silva et al. (2016: 12)
• Tydeus catenulatus, subsequent combination used by Momen & Lundqvist (2016: 54) corrected under art. 34.2 of ICZN
• Brachytydeus catenulata, incorrect subsequent spelling (gender) used by Silva et al. (2016: 12)
• Brachytydeus catenulatus, subsequent combination used by Silva et al. (2016: 12) corrected under art. 34.2 of ICZN

Subjective synonyms

• Lorryia bedfordiensis, junior synonym according to Kaźmierski (1998: 325)

Notes

• Type species of the genus Retetydeus [Thor (1931), Baker & Wharton (1952: 192)].
• The similarity with bedfordiensis was reported by Baker (1968: 992).
• The subjective synonymy is not reported by Silva et al. (2016).
• The species was described from mosses in Norway and is listed in the checklist of Mehl (1979: 35). Species cited from Greece, South Africa... but never redescribed from Norway. The closest country where the species was collected is Sweden (Momen & Lundqvist, 1995).

References

• Baker, E.W. 1968. The genus Lorryia. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 61: 986–1008. DOI: 10.1093/aesa/61.4.986 Reference page. 
• Baker, E.W. & Wharton, G.W. 1952. An introduction to acarology. Macmillan, New York. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.6810 Reference page. 
• Kaźmierski, A. 1998. Tydeinae of the world: generic relationships, new and redescribed taxa and keys to all species. A revision of the subfamilies Pretydeinae and Tydeinae (Acari: Actinedida: Tydeidae) – part IV. Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia 41(2): 283–455. Reference page. 
• Khaustov, A.A. 2023. Contribution to the fauna of Tydeidae (Acari: Prostigmata) from Western Siberia, Russia. Acarologia 63(2): 491-521. DOI: doi.org/10.24349/7fyj-me9u5 Reference page. 
• Mehl, R. 1979. Checklist of Norwegian ticks and mites (Acari). Fauna Norvegica, Ser. B. 26: 31–45.
• Momen, F. & Lundqvist, L. 1995. The genus Tydeus (Acari: Prostigmata) in Southern Sweden, six new species. Acarologia 36: 41–53. Abstract and full article Reference page. 
• Silva, G.L. da, Metzelthin, M.H., Silva, O.S. da & Ferla, N.J. 2016. Catalogue of the mite family Tydeidae (Acari: Prostigmata) with the world key to the species. Zootaxa 4135(1): 1–68. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4135.1.1. Reference page. 
• Thor, S. 1931. Norwegische Tydeidae. I–VII. Mit Kennzeichnung vier neuer Gattungen. Zoologischer Anzeiger 94: 89–104. Reference page.