Calotydeus nikitensis

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: Calotydeus
Species: Calotydeus nikitensis

Name

Calotydeus nikitensis (Livshits, 1973)

• Type locality: from tree shrub (Crimea)
• Holotype: Department of Entomology and Phytopathology of the State Nikitsky Botanical Garden, Yalta, Crimea.

Synonyms

• Paralorryia nikitensis, original combination
• Pseudolorryia nikitensis, subsequent combination advanced by Kaźmierski (1989, 1998: 338) and adopted by Silva et al. (2016: 33)
• Calotydeus nikitensis, subsequent combination resulting from generic synonymies made by André (2005: 995)

References

• André, H.M. 2005. In search of the true Tydeus (Acari: Tydeidae). Journal of Natural History 39: 975–1001. Reference page. 
• Kaźmierski, A. 1989b. Morphological studies on Tydeidae (Actinedida, Acari) I. Remarks about the segmentation, chaetotaxy and poroidotaxy of idiosoma. Acta zoologica cracoviensia 32: 69–83.

• Kuznetsov, N.N. & Livshits, I.Z. 1973. [Three new species of the genus Paralorryia (Acariformes, Tydeidae) from the Nikitsky Botanical Gardens]. Zoologicheskiy zhurnal 52: 604–606. [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.