Brachytydeus monticolus

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 monticolus

Name

Brachytydeus monticolus (Ueckermann & Smith Meyer, 1979)

• Type locality: on Grewia monticola, Enkeldoornspoort, near Rust de Winter, Transvaal (South Africa)
• Holotype: PPRI Accession numbers AcY78/435-436 - ♀

Synonyms

• Paralorryia monticola, original combination
• Lorryia monticola, subsequent combination used by Kaźmierski (1998)
• Brachytydeus monticola, incorrect subsequent spelling (gender) used by Ueckermann & Grout (2007: 2362) and Silva et al. (2016: 19)
• Brachytydeus monticolus, subsequent combination corrected under art. 34.2 of ICZN

References

• 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. 
• Ueckermann, E.A. & Grout, T.G. 2007. Tydeoid mites (Acari:Tydeidae, Edbakerellidae, Iolinidae) occurring on Citrus in southern Africa. Journal of Natural History 41: 2351–2378.
• Ueckermann, E.A. & Smith Meyer, M.K.P. 1979. African Tydeidae (Acari). 2. The genus Paralorryia Baker, 1965. Phytophylactica 11: 117–127.
• 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.