Leptus

Leptus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Erythraeoidea

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: Anystina Hypordo: Parasitengona Subcohort: Erythraeina Superfamilia: Erythraeoidea

Familia: Erythraeidae
Subfamilia: Leptinae
Genus: Leptus
Species: L. sidorchukae –

Name

Leptus Latreille, 1797

References

Primary references

• Latreille, P.A. [1797]. Précis des caractères génériques des insectes, disposés dans un ordre naturel. Prévôt, Paris [&] F. Bourdeaux, Brive. xiii + [1] + 201 + [7] pp. BHL. Reference page. 

Additional references

• Costa, S.G. dos S., Klompen, H., Bernardi, L.F. de O., Gonçalves, L.C., Ribeiro, D.B. & Pepato, A.R. 2019. Multi-instar descriptions of cave dwelling Erythraeidae (Trombidiformes: Parasitengona) employing an integrative approach. Pp 137–184 In Zhang, Z-Q., Fuangarworn, M., Seeman, O. & Mironov, S.V. {eds.). Ontogeny and morphological diversity in immature mites (Part II). Zootaxa 4717(1): 1–230. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4717.1.1 Reference page.  Zootaxa 4717(1): 137–184. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4717.1.10 Reference page. 
• Haitlinger, R. 2006: Eight new species and new records of mites (Acari: Prostigmata: Erythraeidae, Trombidiidae, Johnstonianidae) from China including Macao. Systematic and applied acarology, 11: 83–105. Abstract
• Haitlinger, R. 2007: New records of mites from Corsica and Sardinia, with descriptions of five new species (Acari: Prostigmata: Erythraeidae, Trombidiidae, Eutrombidiidae). Genus (Wrocław), 18: 529–543. PDF
• Haitlinger, R. 2007: A new genus and nine new larval species (Acari: Prostigmata: Erythraeidae, Eutrombidiidae) from Benin, Ghana and Togo. Revista iberica de aracnologia, 14: 109–127.
• Haitlinger, R. 2009: Four new species of Leptus Latreille, 1796 (Acari: Prostigmata: Erythraeidae) from the Canary Islands. Systematic & applied acarology, 14: 140–152. Abstract
• Łaydanowicz, J.; Mąkol, J. 2010: Correlation of heteromorphic life instars in terrestrial Parasitengona mites and its impact on taxonomy - the case of Leptus molochinus (C. L. Koch, 1837) and Leptus ignotus (Oudemans, 1903) (Acari: Trombidiformes: Prostigmata: Erythraeidae). Journal of natural history, 44: 669–697. DOI: 10.1080/00222930903383560
• Mąkol, J., Felska, M., Moniuszko, H. & Zaleśny, G. 2012. Redescription of Leptus kattikus Haitlinger, 2009 (Actinotrichida, Parasitengona, Erythraeidae) and molecular identification of its host from DNA barcoding. Zootaxa 3569: 67–78. Preview Reference page. 
• Southcott, R.V. 1988: Two new larval mites (Acarina : Erythraeidae) ectoparasitic on north Queensland cicadas. Records of the South Australian Museum, 22: 103–116. PDF
• Southcott, R.V. 1991: Descriptions of larval Leptus (Acarina: Erythraeidae) ectoparasitic on Australian Diptera, and two earlier described Australian larvae. Invertebrate taxonomy, 5: 717–763. DOI: 10.1071/IT9910717
• Southcott, R.V. 1993: Larvae of Leptus (Acarina: Erythraeidae) ectoparasitic on higher insects of Australia and New Guinea. Invertebrate taxonomy, 7: 1473–1550. DOI: 10.1071/IT9931473
• Southcott, R.V. 1999: Larvae of Leptus (Acarina: Erythraeidae), free-living or ectoparasitic on arachnids and lower insects of Australia and Papua New Guinea, with descriptions of reared post-larval instars. Zoological journal of the Linnean Society, 127: 113–276. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1999.tb00677.x

Links

• Australian Faunal Directory
• ION
• Nomenclator Zoologicus