Brachytydeus pongolanus

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 pongolanus

Name

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Brachytydeus pongolanus (Ueckermann & Smith Meyer, 1979)

  • Type locality: from soil, Pongola, Natal (South Africa).
  • Holotype: PPRI accession number AcY 78/225, ♀.

Synonyms

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  • Lorryia pongolana, original combination (see the notes), combination also used by Kaźmierski (1998: 325)
  • Brachytydeus ponglana, subsequent combination used by Silva et al. (2016: 23)
  • Brachytydeus pongolanus, subsequent combination used in this database (see the notes) based on the subsequent combination used by Silva et al. (2016: 23) and corrected under art. 34.2 of ICZN

Notes

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  • In the original description, the name was spelled in two different ways: ponglana (title of the description, page 44) and pongolana (legend of figs 8-17, page 46). As the name of the species is derived from the locality type, the town of Pangola, the second name is used in this database.

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