Brachytydeus funki

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 funki

Name

Brachytydeus funki (Baker, 1968)

• Type locality: ex debris in Asyndesmus lewis (Gray) nest, 2 miles S of Fort Collins, Colorado (USA)
• Holotype: USNM no. 3193 - ♀

Synonyms

• Lorryia funki, original combination, also used by Kaźmierski et al. (2018: 815)
• Tydeus funki, subsequent combination advanced by Momen & Lundqvist (1996: 93)
• Brachytydeus funki, subsequent combination used by Silva et al. (2016: 15)

Notes

• Species redescribed from the holotype by Momen & Lundqvist (1996: 93-94).

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. 
• Kaźmierski, A., Marciniak, M. & Sikora, B. 2018. Tydeinae mites (Acariformes: Prostigmata: Tydeidae) from bird nests with description of three new species. Systematic and Applied Acarology 23(5): 803-823.
• Momen, F. & Lundqvist, L. 1996. Corticolous mites; new and unrecorded species of the genus Tydeus (Acari: Prostigmata: Tydeidae) and a key to species of Southern Sweden Acarologia 37: 83–96. 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.