Brachytydeus opiferus

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. opiferus

Name

Brachytydeus opiferus (Kuznetsov & Livshits, 1973)

• Type locality: from pistachio wild, Crimea
• Holotype: Department of Entomology and Phytopathology of the State Nikitsky Botanical Garden, Yalta, Crimea.

Synonyms

• Paralorryia opifera, original combination
• Lorryia opiferus, subsequent combination advanced by Kaźmierski (1998: 333)
• Lorryia opifera, subsequent combination used by Khaustov (2023: 516)
• Brachytydeus opifera, incorrect subsequent spelling (gender) used by Silva et al. (2016: 21)
• Brachytydeus opiferus, subsequent combination used by Silva et al. (2016: 21) 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. 
• Khaustov, A.A. 2023. Contribution to the fauna of Tydeidae (Acari: Prostigmata) from Western Siberia, Russia. Acarologia 63(2): 491-521. DOI: doi.org/10.24349/7fyj-me9u5 Reference page. 
• Kuznetsov, N.N. & Livshitz, I.Z. 1973. [New and little known species of mites (Acariformes, Tydeidae) of the Crimea fauna]. Biologicheskie nauki 3: 13–18. [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.