Brachytydeus tridactylus

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: Brachytydeus
Species: Brachytydeus tridactylus

Name

Brachytydeus tridactylus (Weiss-Fogh, 1948)

• Type locality: Jutland (Denmark)
• Holotype:

Synonymy

• Tydeus tridactylus, original combination
• Tydeus (Pertydeus) tridactylus, implicit subsequent combination used by André & Naudo (1965)
• Lorryia tridactila, subsequent combination and misspelling used by Kaźmierski (1998: 335)

Notes

• The species is not listed by Silva et al. (2016).
• Assigned to the genus Brachytydeus together with the other two Pertydeus.
• Species restricted to Jan Mayen (not present in Svalbard) according to Coulson & Refseth (2004: 87)

References

• André, M. & Naudo, M.H. 1965. Pertydeus schusteri, n. sgen., n. sp., nouveau Tydeus à griffe pulvillaire (Tydeidae). Acarologia 7(4): 673–682. Abstract and full paper (PDF). Reference page. 
• Coulson, S.J. & Refseth, D. 2004. The terrestrial and freshwater invertebrate fauna of Svalbard (and Jan Mayen). In Prestrud, P., Strøm, H. & Goldman, H.A. (eds). A catalogue of the terrestrial and marine animals of Svalbard. Skrifter 201. Norwegian Polar Institute, Tromsø: 57–122.
• 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. 
• 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. 
• Weiss-Fogh, T. 1948. Ecological investigations on mites and collemboles in the soil. Appendix: description of sorne new mites (Acari). Natura Jutlandica 1: 253-270.