Nestor Fernandez

Nestor Fernandez, Argentine acarologist

National Council of Scientific and Technological research, Misiones National University, Misiones, Argentina

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Fernandez, N & Cleva, R. 2010. Malgacheliodes guillaumeti n. gen, n. sp. (Acari, Oribatida, Pheroliodidae) de Madagascar. Zoosystema 36: 567–583. DOI: 10.5252/z2010n4a2 Reference page.

Fernandez, N., Theron, P., Rollard, C. & Castillo, E.R. 2014. Revision of the family Carabodidae (Acari, Oribatida) VII. Redefinition of the genus Malgasodes; redescription of M. curvisetus Mahunka, 2000; and complementary description of M. hungarorum Mahunka, 2010. Phylogenetic relationships between Malgasodes, Bovicarabodes, Afticarabodes, Congocepheus and Cavaecarabodes are discussed. ZooKeys 435: 25–48. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.435.8071 Reference page.
Fernandez, N., Theron, P., Rollard, C. & Castillo, E.R. 2014. Revision of the family Carabodidae (Acari: Oribatida) VIII. Redefinition of Congocepheus, definition of Cavaecarabodes gen. nov., and descriptions of three new species, Congocepheus germani sp. nov., Cavaecarabodes pulchritude gen. nov., sp. nov., and Cavaecarabodes anouchkae gen. nov., sp. nov. International journal of acarology, 40(7): 535–555. DOI: 10.1080/01647954.2014.959050 . Reference page.

Fernandez, N. & Theron, P.D. 2016. Two new oribatid mites from the Republic of Rwanda. Plasmobates zarae sp. n. (Acari, Plasmobatidae) and Basilobelba spasmenosi sp. n. (Acari, Basilobelbidae). ZooKeys 598: 1–25. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.598.8972. Reference page.
Fernandez, N., Theron, P.D. & Leiva, S. 2016. Revision of the family Carabodidae (Acari, Oribatida) V. Fourth part. Two new species of the genus Congocepheus from the Republic of Rwanda: Congocepheus rwandensis sp. n., and Congocepheus kayoveae sp. n. ZooKeys 556: 19–41. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.556.7011. Reference page.
Fernandez, N., Theron, P.D. & Leiva, S. 2016. Revision of the family Carabodidae (Acari: Oribatida) XI. Congocepheus kardiae sp. nov. and Zimbabweae pluosiae gen. nov, sp. nov. from the Republic of Zimbabwe. International Journal of Acarology 42: 341–357. DOI: 10.1080/01647954.2016.1199138 Reference page.

Fernandez, N., Theron, P.D., Leiva, S. & Tiedt, L. 2017. Revision of the family Carabodidae (Acari, Oribatida) XII. Yoshiobodes camerunensis sp. n. and Rugocepheus costaricensis sp. n. ZooKeys 706: 31—50. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.706.14807. Reference page.
Fernandez, N., Theron, P., Leiva, S. & Tiedt, L. 2017. Two new Oribatid mites from Costa Rica, Mixacarus turialbaiensis sp. n. and Paulianacarus costaricensis sp. n. (Acari, Oribatida, Lohmanniidae). ZooKeys 680: 33—56. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.680.13213. Reference page.
Fernandez, N., Theron, P., Leiva, S. & Tiedt, L. 2017. Revision of the family Carabodidae (Acari: Oribatida) XIII. Congocepheus camerunensis sp. nov. and Synkrotima zimbabwae gen. nov, sp. nov. from the Republic of Zimbabwe. Systematic and Applied Acarology 22 (11): 1822–1842. http://dx.doi.org/10.11158/saa.22.11.4. Reference page.
Fernandez, N., Leiva, S. & Jordaan, A. 2017. Revision of the family Carabodidae (Acari: Oribatida) V (Fifth part). Redescription of Congocepheus latilamellatus Mahunka 1984, with complementary studies of C. ornatus, Mahunka 1983. Descriptions of Tanzaniacepheus gen. nov. and Zimbabwecepheus gen. nov. Zootaxa 4324(2): 315–330. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4324.2.5. Reference page.

Fernandez, N., Theron, P.D. & Leiva, S. 2018. Two new species of the family Nippobodidae (Acari, Oribatida), including a description of the leg-folding process. ZooKeys 781: 109–139. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.781.27389 Reference page.
Fernandez, N., Theron, P., Leiva, S. & Jordaan, A. 2018. The family Lohmanniidae (Acari, Oribatida) II: two new Oribatid mites, Meristacarus perikopesis sp. n. from Costa Rica and Torpacarus eidikoterai sp. n. from Kenya. ZooKeys 743: 43–66. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.743.22815. Reference page.
Fernandez, N., Theron, P., Leiva, S. & Jordaan, A. 2018. Revision of the family Carabodidae (Acari: Oribatida) XVI. Synkrotima tsalakpmenoi sp. nov. from Zimbabwe and Kenya, and Congocepheus thailandae sp. nov. from Thailand, including a complementary study of Cavaecarabodes hauseri (Mahunka 1989). Zootaxa 4504(3): 371–389. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4504.3.4 Reference page.