Tydeus octomaculatus

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: Tydeus
Species: Tydeus octomaculatus

Name

Tydeus octomaculatus Momen & Lundqvist, 1995

• Type locality: ex moss on ground, Ivöklack (Sweden)
• Holotype: NMI slide no. 5526, ♀

Synonyms

Subjective synonyms

• Junior synonym of Brachytydeus unigenus according to Kaźmierski (1998: 328)

Notes

• Synonymy reported by Silva et al. (2016: 27).

References

• 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. 
• 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.