Metalorryia delicata

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: Metalorryia
Species: M. delicata

Metalorryia delicata (Kuznetsov, 1971)

Type locality: from rocks and moss (Georgia)
Holotype: Department of Entomology and Phytopathology of the State Nikitsky Botanical Garden, Yalta, Crimea.

Lorryia delicata, original combination
Metalorryia delicata, subsequent combination advanced by Panou & Emmanouel (1995), used by Silva et al. (2016: 29) and by Khaustov (2023: 517)

Lorryia cristata Karg, 1975, junior synonym according to Kaźmierski (1998: 345–346) after examination of the type of Lorryia cristata

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.
Khaustov, A.A. 2023. Contribution to the fauna of Tydeidae (Acari: Prostigmata) from Western Siberia, Russia. Acarologia 63(2): 491-521. DOI: doi.org/10.24349/7fyj-me9u5 Reference page.
Kuznetzov, N.N. 1971. Seven species of the genus Lorryia (Tydeidae) from Crimea and Georgia. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 50: 1740–1746. [In Russian]
Panou, H.N. & Emmanouel, N.G. 1995. New records of tydeid mites from Greece with description of Lorryia brachypous sp. nov. (Acari: Tydeidae). Entomologische Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum Hamburg 11: 211–220.
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.