Brachytydeus placitus

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 placitus

Name

Brachytydeus placitus (Livshits, 1973)

• Type locality: Hybiscus syriacus L. (Crimea)
• Holotype: State Nikitsky Botanical Garden, Yalta, Crimea

Synonymy

• Tydeus placitus, original combination
• Lorryia placita, subsequent combination advanced by Kaźmierski (1998: 336)
• Brachytydeus placita, incorrect subsequent spelling (gender) used by Silva et al. (2016: 22)
• Brachytydeus placitus, subsequent combination used by Silva et al. (2016: 22) 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. 
• Kuznetsov, N.N. & Livshitz, I.Z. 1973. [New species of mites (Acariformes, Tydeidae) from the Nikitsky Botanical Gardens]. Zoologicheskiy Zhurnal 52: 280-282. [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.