Lourus testatus

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: Iolinidae
Subfamilia: Pronematinae
Genus: Lourus
Species: Lourus testatus

Name

Lourus testatus (Kuznetsov, 1972)

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• Holotype:
• Type species of the genus

Synonyms

• Pronematus testatus, original combination
• "Pronematus" testatus, subsequent combination used by Kaźmierski (1998: 45)
• Lourus testatus, subsequent combination advanced by Ueckermann & Grout (2007)

Notes

• The generic assignation was already questioned by Kaźmierski (1998: 45), with his generic unit 4 (cf. Pronematus).

References

• Kaźmierski, A. 1998. A review of the genus Proctotydaeus Berlese (Actinedida:Tydeidae:Pronematinae). Acarologia 39: 33–47. Abstract and full article. Reference page. 
• Kuznetsov, N.N. 1972. Mites of the genus Pronematus Canestrini (Acarina, Tydeidae) from the Crimea. Nauchnye Doklady Vysshej Shkoly, Biologicheskie Nauki 5: 11–16. [In Russian]
• Ueckermann, E.A. & Grout, T.G. 2007. Tydeoid mites (Acari:Tydeidae, Edbakerellidae, Iolinidae) occurring on Citrus in southern Africa. Journal of Natural History 41: 2351–2378.