Brachytydeus inflatus

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 inflatus

Name

Brachytydeus inflatus (Momen, 1988)

• Type locality: from twigs of unsprayed apple trees, Belfied, Dublin (Ireland)
• Holotype: NMI, ♀

Synonyms

Objective synonyms

• Tydeus inflatus, original combination
• Lorryia inflata, subsequent combination proposed by Kaźmierski (1998)
• Brachytydeus inflatus, subsequent combination used by Silva et al. (2016: 16)

Subjective synonyms

• Brachytydeus pulcher, senior synonym according to Kaźmierski (1998: 299)

References

• Momen, F.M. 1988. New species of mites of the family Tydeidae (Acarina: Prostigmata) collected from unsprayed apple trees in Ireland. Acarologia 29: 355–360. Abstract and full article
• 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. 
• 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.