Rainbowia

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Erythraeoidea

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: Anystina Hypordo: Parasitengona Subcohort: Erythraeina Superfamilia: Erythraeoidea

Familia: Erythraeidae
Subfamilia: Erythraeinae
Genus: Rainbowia
Species: R. celeripes – R. imperator

[list of species after Beron (2008)]

Name

Rainbowia Southcott, 1961

Gender

feminine?

Type species

• Leptus imperator Hirst, 1928, by original designation

References

cited sources

• Beron, P. 2008: Acarorum catalogus I. Acariformes: Calyptostomatoidea (Calyptostomatidae), Erythraeoidea (Smarididae, Erythraeidae). Pensoft Publishers and the National Museum of Natural History, Sofia Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
• Hirst, S. 1928: On some new Australian mites of the families Trombidiidae and Erythraeidae. Annals and magazine of natural history (10), 1: 563–571. [not seen]
• Southcott, R.V. 1961: Studies on the systematics and biology of the Erythraeoidea (Acarina), with a critical revision of the genera and subfamilies. Australian journal of zoology, 9: 367–610. DOI: 10.1071/ZO9610367

Links

• ION
• Nomenclator Zoologicus
• Australian Faunal Directory