Brachytydeus tragelaphus

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 tragelaphus

Name

Brachytydeus tragelaphus (Kaźmierski, 1993)

Type locality: from dry litter beneath eucalyptus woodland, litter, moss and rotten wood (Kenya)
Holotype: ZMUH

Lorryia tragelaphus, original combination, also used by Kaźmierski (1998: 331)
Brachytydeus tragelaphus, subsequent combination used by Silva et al. (2016: 26)

Kaźmierski, A. 1993. Two new Tydeinae mites (Acari: Actinedida: Tydeidae) from Kenya. Entomologische Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum Hamburg 11: 65–74.
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.