Paralorryia leptonychotes

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

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Paralorryia leptonychotes (Womersley, 1937)

Type locality: taken from the intestine of a Weddell Seal, Leptonychotes weddelli, Commonwealth Bay, King George V Land (Antarctica)

Lorryia leptonychotes, original combination
Paralorryia leptonychotes, subsequent combination advanced by Baker (1968a: 987; 1968b: 1100)

Description based on a single specimen. The chaetotaxy is not given in the description.
"Ancient" species according to Kaźmierski (1998: 357)
Species not listed by Silva et al. (2016).

Baker, E.W. 1968a. The genus Lorryia. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 61: 986–1008. DOI: 10.1093/aesa/61.4.986
Baker, E.W. 1968b. The genus Paralorryia. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 61: 1097–1106. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aesa/61.5.1097
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 4. Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia 41(2): 283–455.
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.
Womersley, H. 1937: Acarina. Scientific reports of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 (C) 10(6): 1-24. PDF Reference page. [first availability, see p. 8, and Text figs. 1a-c]