Brachytydeus tridactylus

Taxonavigation

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 tridactylus

Brachytydeus tridactylus (Weiss-Fogh, 1948)

Tydeus tridactylus, original combination
Tydeus (Pertydeus) tridactylus, implicit subsequent combination used by André & Naudo (1965)
Lorryia tridactila, subsequent combination and misspelling used by Kaźmierski (1998: 335)

The species is not listed by Silva et al. (2016).
Assigned to the genus Brachytydeus together with the other two Pertydeus.
Species restricted to Jan Mayen (not present in Svalbard) according to Coulson & Refseth (2004: 87)

André, M. & Naudo, M.H. 1965. Pertydeus schusteri, n. sgen., n. sp., nouveau Tydeus à griffe pulvillaire (Tydeidae). Acarologia 7(4): 673–682. Abstract and full paper (PDF). Reference page.
Coulson, S.J. & Refseth, D. 2004. The terrestrial and freshwater invertebrate fauna of Svalbard (and Jan Mayen). In Prestrud, P., Strøm, H. & Goldman, H.A. (eds). A catalogue of the terrestrial and marine animals of Svalbard. Skrifter 201. Norwegian Polar Institute, Tromsø: 57–122.
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.
Weiss-Fogh, T. 1948. Ecological investigations on mites and collemboles in the soil. Appendix: description of sorne new mites (Acari). Natura Jutlandica 1: 253-270.