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

Familia: Tydeidae
Subfamilia: Tydeinae
Genus: Paralorryia
Species: Paralorryia leptonychotes

Name

Paralorryia leptonychotes (Womersley, 1937)

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

Synonyms

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

Notes

• 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).

References

• 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]