Gamasiphoides

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Rhodacaroidea
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: Parasitiformes Ordo: Mesostigmata Subordo: Dermanyssina Superfamilia: Rhodacaroidea

Familia: Ologamasidae
Subfamilia: Gamasiphinae
Genus: Gamasiphoides
Species (22): G. acanthioides – G. aitkeni – G. baloghi – G. brevisetis – G. caudatae – G. coniunctus – G. costai – G. femoralis – G. gamasiphoides – G. leptogenitalis – G. linealis – G. longocuspis – G. longosetis – G. longoventris – G. lootsi – G. macquariensis – G. octosetae – G. postanalis – G. procerus – G. propinqua – G. rykei – G. setosus

[sources: Lee & Hunter (1974), Karg (1996), Halliday (2005), Karg & Schorlemmer (2011)]

Name

Gamasiphoides Womersley, 1956

• Original status: valid subgenus of Gamasiphis
• Type species: Gamasiphis propinqua Womersley, 1956, fixed by original designation [p. 528] [and monotypy]

References

• Halliday, R.B. 2005: Predatory mites from crops and pastures in South Africa: potential natural enemies of redlegged earth mite Halotydeus destructor (Acari: Penthaleidae). Zootaxa, 1079: 11–64. Abstract & excerpt
• Karg, W. 1996: New species from predatory mite genera of the Gamasina Leach (Acarina, Parasitiformes) with indications of their evolutional age. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin, 72(1): 149–195. DOI: 10.1002/mmnz.19960720111 [in German with English abstract]
• Karg, W. & Schorlemmer, A. 2011: New insights into the systematics of Parasitiformes (Acarina) with new species from South America. Acarologia 51(1): 3-29. DOI: 10.1051/acarologia/20111995 . Reference page. 
• Lee, D.C. 1970: The Rhodacaridae (Acari: Mesostigmata); classification, external morphology and distribution of genera. Records of the South Australian Museum, 16(3): 1–219. PDF
• Lee, D.C.; Hunter, P.E. 1974: Arthropoda of the subantarctic islands of New Zealand. 6. Rhodacaridae (Acari: Mesostigmata). New Zealand journal of zoology, 1(3): 295–328. DOI: 10.1080/03014223.1974.9517836 BUGZ Google books

• Sirvid, P.J. et al. 2010: 6. Phylum Arthropoda Chelicerata: horseshoe crabs, arachnids, sea spiders. Pp. 50-89 in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) 2010. New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume 2. Kingdom Animalia. Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, ichnofossils. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch, New Zealand. Reference page.  Pp. 50-74 (PDF) Reference page. 
• Womersley, H. 1956: On some new Acarina-Mesostigmata from Australia, New Zealand and New Guinea. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, zoology, 42(288): 505–599. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1956.tb02218.x

Links

• Australian Faunal Directory
• Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist [needs update]
• EoL [needs update]
• ION [needs update]
• Nomenclator Zoologicus