Brachytydeus pulcher

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 pulcher

Name

Brachytydeus pulcher (Oudemans, 1929)

• Type locality: on Typha latifolia, Potsdam (Germany)
• Holotype: RMNH, DN

Synonyms

Objective synonyms

• Tydeus pulcher, original combination used by Oudemans (1929a: 426)
• Lorryia pulcher, subsequent combination used by Oudemans (1929b: 481)
• Lorryia (L.) pulchra, subsequent combination used by Thor (1933: 56)
• Lorryia pulchra, subsequent combination used by Baker (1968: 992)
• Brachytydeus pulchra, incorrect subsequent spelling (gender) used by Silva et al. (2016: 23)
• Brachytydeus pulcher, subsequent combination used by Silva et al. (2016: 23) corrected under art. 34.2 of ICZN

Subjective synonyms

• Tydeus inflatus, junior synonym according to Kaźmierski (1998: 299)

Notes

• Species listed in Oudemans'collection by Buitendijk (1945: 322).
• Species redescribed from the holotype by Kaźmierski (1998: 299).
• The holotype (single specimen) is not a female as indicated on the slide but a deutonymph studied by Kaźmierski (1998: 299)

References

• Baker, E.W. 1968. The genus Lorryia. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 61: 986–1008. DOI: 10.1093/aesa/61.4.986 Reference page. 
• Buitendijk, A.M. 1945. Voorloopige Catalogus van de Acari in de Collectie-Oudemans. Zoologische Mededelingen 24: 281–391. PDF available via Naturalis Biodiversity Center.
• 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. 
• Oudemans, A.C. 1929a. Acarologische aanteekeningen XCVI. Entomologische Berichten 7: 421–429 [516].
• Oudemans, A.C. 1929b. Acarologische Aanteekeningen XCVIII. Entomologische Berichten 7: 476–485 [525].
• 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. 
• Thor, S. 1933. Tydeidae, Ereynetidae. Das Tierreich 60: 1–84.