Michael J. Skvarla

Michael Joseph Skvarla, American acarologist

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Fisher, J.R., Skvarla, M.J., Bauchan, G.R., Ochoa, R. & Dowling, A.P.G. 2011. Trachymolgus purpureus sp. n., an armored snout mite (Acari, Bdellidae) from the Ozark highlands: morphology, development, and key to Trachymolgus Berlese. ZooKeys 125: 1–34. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.125.1875 .

Skvarla, M.J. & Dowling, A.P.G. 2012. Some new armascirine cunaxids (Acari: Prostigmata: Cunaxidae) from the Eastern United States. Zootaxa 3194: 1–34. Preview [Erratum in Zootaxa 3358: 68–68. Preview PDF (2012)] Reference page.

Rocha, M.S., Skvarla, M.J. & Ferla, N.J. 2013. A new species of Scutopalus (Acari: Cunaxidae: Cunaxoidinae) from Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil with a key to world species. Zootaxa 3734(1): 38–44. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3734.1.4 Reference page.
Skvarla, M.J., Fisher, J.R. & Dowling, A.P.G. 2013. On some mites (Acari: Prostigmata) from the Interior Highlands: descriptions of the male, immature stages, and female reproductive system of Pseudocheylus americanus (Ewing, 1909) and some new state records for Arkansas. Zootaxa 3641(4): 401–419. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3641.4.7 Reference page.

Skvarla, M.J., Fisher, J.R. & Dowling, A.P.G. 2014. A review of Cunaxidae (Acariformes, Trombidiformes): Histories and diagnoses of subfamilies and genera, keys to world species, and some new locality records. ZooKeys 418: 1-103. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.418.7629 Reference page.

Skvarla, M.J., Tripodi, A., Szalanski, A. & Dowling, A.P.G. 2015. New records of Orussus minutus Middlekauff, 1983 (Hymenoptera: Orussidae) represent a significant western range expansion. Biodiversity Data Journal 3: e5793. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.3.e5793. Reference page.

Hernandes, F.A., Skvarla, M.J., Fisher, J.R., Dowling, A.P.G., Ochoa,R., Ueckermann, E.A. & Bauchan, G.R. 2016. Catalogue of snout mites (Acariformes: Bdellidae) of the world. Zootaxa 4152(1): 1–83. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4152.1.1. Reference page.
O'Neill, J.C., Fisher, J.R., Nelson, W.A., Skvarla, M.J., Fisher, D.M. & Dowling, A.P.G. 2016. Systematics of testudacarine torrent mites (Acari, Hydrachnidia, Torrenticolidae) with descriptions of 13 new species from North America. ZooKeys 582: 13–110. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.582.7684. Reference page.

Fisher, J.R., Fisher, D.M., Skvarla, M.J., Nelson, W.A. & Dowling, A.P.G. 2017. Revision of torrent mites (Parasitengona, Torrenticolidae, Torrenticola) of the United States and Canada: 90 descriptions, molecular phylogenetics, and a key to species. ZooKeys 701: 1-496. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.701.13261. Reference page.
Metz, M.A., Miller, D.R., Dickey, A.M., Bauchan, G.R., Ochoa, R., Skvarla, M.J. & Miller, G.L. 2017. Rediscovering digitules in Aphidomorpha and the question of homology among Sternorrhyncha (Insecta, Hemiptera). ZooKeys 683: 39—50. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.683.10100. Reference page.

Skvarla, M., Kramer, M., Owen, C.L. & Miller, G.L. 2020. Reexamination of Rhopalosiphum (Hemiptera: Aphididae) using linear discriminant analysis to determine the validity of synonymized species, with some new synonymies and distribution data. Biodiversity Data Journal, 8: e49102. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.8.e49102 Reference page.