Brachytydeus penicillatus

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: Brachytydeus
Species: Brachytydeus penicillatus

Name

Brachytydeus penicillatus (Momen & Lundqvist, 1996)

• Type locality: ex lichens on twigs on soil surface, Prästtorpasjön (Sweden)
• Holotype: NMI slide no. 5626, ♀

Synonyms

• Tydeus penicillatus, original combination
• Lorryia penicillata, subsequent combination proposed by Kaźmierski (1998: 332)
• Brachytydeus penicillata, incorrect subsequent spelling (gender) used by Silva et al. (2016: 22)
• Brachytydeus penicillatus, subsequent combination used by Silva et al. (2016: 22) corrected under art. 34.2 of ICZN

References

• 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 IV. Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia 41(2): 283–455. Reference page. 
• Momen, F. & Lundqvist, L. 1996. Corticolous mites; new and unrecorded species of the genus Tydeus (Acari: Prostigmata: Tydeidae) and a key to species of Southern Sweden Acarologia 37: 83–96. Abstract and full article Reference page. 
• 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.