Afridiolorryia africana

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: Afridiolorryia
Species: Afridiolorryia africana

Name

Afridiolorryia africana (Baker, 1965)

• Type locality: on Podocarpus usamburensis Pilger, near Lubero (Congo Democratic Republic)
• Holotype: USNM

Synonymy

• Lorryia africana, original combination, subsequent combination used by Baker (1968: 1002)
• Lorryia africanus, incorrect subsequent spelling (gender) used by Silva et al. (2016: 8)
• Afridiolorryia africana, subsequent combination proposed by Kaźmierski (1996) and used by Silva et al. (2016: 8)

References

• Baker, E.W. 1965. A review of the genera of the family Tydeidae (Acarina). In: Naegele J.A. (ed.) Advances in acarology 2. Ithaca (NY): Cornell University Press: 96–133. Reference page. 
• Baker, E.W. 1968. The genus Lorryia. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 61: 986–1008.
• Kaźmierski, A. 1996. A revision of the subfamilies Pretydeinae and Tydeinae (Acari, Actinedida: Tydeidae). Part III. Seven new genera and some new species of the Tydeinae, with a generic key. Mitteilungen Hamburgisches Zoologisches Museum und Institut 93: 199–227.
• 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.