Brachytydeus libertus

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: B. libertus

Name

Brachytydeus libertus (Livshits, 1973)

• Type locality: from ivy leaves (Crimea)

• Holotype: Department of Entomology and Phytopathology of the State Nikitsky Botanical Garden, Yalta, Crimea

Synonyms

• Paralorryia liberta, original combination
• Venilia liberta, subsequent combination used by Kuznetsov (1979) and Kaźmierski (1981)
• Lorryia liberta, subsequent combination used by Kaźmierski (1998)
• Kuznetsovia liberta, subsequent combination suggested but not used by Kammerer (2006: 269)
• Brachytydeus liberta, incorrect subsequent spelling (gender) used by Silva et al. (2016: 18)
• Brachytydeus libertus, subsequent combination used by Silva et al. (2016: 18) corrected under art. 34.2 of ICZN

Notes

• Type species of the genus Venilia
• Venilia was replaced by Kuznetsovia.

References

• Kammerer, C.F. 2006. Notes on some preoccupied names in Arthropoda. Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 31: 269–271.
• Kaźmierski, A. 1981 (1980). Description of Venilia longina sp. nov. ( Acari, Actinedida: Tydeidae ) with a key to all species of the genus. Bulletin de l'Académie Polonaise des Sciences 28(10-11): 647–652.
• 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. 
• Livshitz, I.Z., Kuznetzov, N.N. & Zapletina, V.P. 1973 [New species of Tydeidae (Acariformes) in the fauna of Caucasus and Crimea]. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 52: 1250–1252. [in Russian]
• 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.