Brachytydeus opimus

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. opimus

Name

Brachytydeus opimus (Kuznetsov & Zapletina, 1973)

• Type locality: from apple tree (Azerbaijan)

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

Synonyms

• Tydeus opimus, original combination
• Lorryia opima, subsequent combination used by Kaźmierski (1998: 335)
• Brachytydeus opima, incorrect subsequent spelling (gender) used by Tempfli et al. (2015: 945) and adopted by Silva et al. (2016: 20)
• Brachytydeus opimus, subsequent combination used by Tempfli et al. (2015: 945) and adopted by Silva et al. (2016: 20) 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. 
• 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. 
• Tempfli, B., Pénzes, J., Fail, J. & Szabó, Á. 2015. The occurrence of tydeoid mites (Acari: Tydeoidea) in Hungarian vineyards. Systematic & Applied Acarology 20(8): 937–954.