Valerie M. Behan-Pelletier

Valerie M. Behan-Pelletier, Ph.D., Canadian acarologist

Invertebrate Biodiversity Program, Research Branch, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, K. W. Neatby Bldg., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0C6

Taxon names authored

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(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Lindo, Z.; Clayton, M.; Behan-Pelletier, V. (2010) Systematics and ecology of the genus Dendrozetes (Acari: Oribatida: Peloppiidae) from arboreal habitats in Western North America. Zootaxa, 2403: 10–22. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2403.1.2 . Reference page.
Behan-Pelletier, V.M. & Eamer, B. 2010. The first sexually dimorphic species of Oribatella (Acari, Oribatida, Oribatellidae) and a review of sexual dimorphism in the Brachypylina. Zootaxa 2332: 1–20. Preview DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2332.1.1 ResearchGate Reference page.

Schatz, H., Behan-Pelletier, V.M., OConnor, B.M. & Norton, R.A. 2011. Suborder Oribatida van der Hammen, 1968. Pp 141–148 In Zhang, Z.-Q. (ed.) 2011. Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Zootaxa 3148: 1–237. Open access. Reference page. . Full article (PDF) Reference page.
Behan-Pelletier, V.M. 2011: Oribatella (Acari, Oribatida, Oribatellidae) of eastern North America. Zootaxa 2973: 1–56. Preview Reference page.

Ermilov, S.G. & Behan-Pelletier, V.M. 2014. Revision of Fenestrobates (Acari, Oribatellidae) with description of F. marauni sp. nov., from South America, and new diagnosis for Oribatellidae. Zootaxa 3827(2): 258–272. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3827.2.7 Reference page.

Behan-Pelletier, V.M. 2015: Sexual dimorphism in Autogneta, with description of three new species from North America and new diagnosis of the genus (Acari, Oribatida, Autognetidae). Zootaxa 3946(1): 55–78. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3946.1.2. Preview Reference page.
Ermilov, S.G., Minor, M.A. & Behan-Pelletier, V.M. 2015. Zealandozetes southensis gen. nov., sp. nov. (Acari, Oribatida, Maudheimiidae) from alpine cushions plant in New Zealand. Zootaxa 4027(1): 42–66. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4027.1.2 Preview (PDF). Reference page.

Behan-Pelletier, V.M. 2017. Tegoribatidae of North America, with proposal of Protectoribates gen. nov., and new species (Acari, Oribatida, Tegoribatidae). Zootaxa 4337(2): 151–197. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4337.2.1. Reference page.
Ermilov, S.G., Hugo-Coetzee, E.A., Theron, P.D. & Behan-Pelletier, V.M. 2017. Contribution to the knowledge of the oribatid mite family Nesozetidae (Acari, Oribatida). Zootaxa 4358(2): 311–327. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4358.2.5 Reference page.

Behan-Pelletier, V.M. & Ermilov, S.G. 2019. Trichoribates sidorchukae sp. nov. (Acari, Oribatida, Ceratozetidae) from tropical montane Ecuador, with revised generic diagnosis. Pp 348–361 In Zhang, Z-Q., Pfingstl, T., Norton, R., Mironov, S.V. & Seeman, O.D. (eds.). Systematic acarology and palaeoacarology: a special volume in memory of Ekaterina Alekseevna Sidorchuk (1981–2019). Zootaxa 1–505. Reference page. Zootaxa 4647(1): 348–361. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4647.1.21 Reference page.
Behan-Pelletier, V.M. & Lindo, Z. 2019. Checklist of oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) of Canada and Alaska. Zootaxa 4666(1): 1–180. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4666.1.1 pdf Reference page.
Beaulieu, F., Knee, W., Nowell, V., Schwartzfeld, M., Lindo, Z., Behan-Pelletier, V., Lumley, L., Young, M.R., Smith, I., Proctor, H.C., Mironov, S.V., Galloway, T.D., Walter, D.E. & Lindquist, E.E. 2019. Acari of Canada. Pp 77–168 In Langor, D.W. & Sheffield, C.S. (eds.). The Biota of Canada – A Biodiversity Assessment. Part 1: The Terrestrial Arthropods. ZooKeys 819: 520 pp. Reference page. . DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.819.28307 Reference page.

Behan-Pelletier, V.M. & Ermilov, S.G. 2020. Sculpteremaeus olszanowskii gen. nov., sp. nov. (Acari, Oribatida, Cymbaeremaeidae) from chaparral in California, USA, with a reassessment of Cymbaeremaeidae. Zootaxa 4790(2): 341–357. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4790.2.9 Reference page.