Tydeus antipodus

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: Tydeus
Species: Tydeus antipodus

Name

Tydeus antipodus Womersley, 1937

• Two specimens from amongst green seaweeds in tidal zone, Macquarie Island (Antarctica)

Notes

• Transferred to the family Eupodidae by Baker (1968: 163)
• Listed as "ancient species" by Kaźmierski (1996: 357)
• Species not listed by Silva et al. (2016)

References

• Baker, E.W. 1968. The genus Paralorryia. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 61: 1097–1106. DOI: 10.1093/aesa/61.5.1097 Reference page. 
• Kaźmierski, A. 1996. A revision of the subfamilies Pretydeinae and Tydeinae (Acari, Actinedida: Tydeidae). Part II. The subfamilies Pretydeinae André, 1979 new taxa, species review, key and considerations. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburger Zoologischen Museum und Institut, 93: 171–198.
• 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. 
• Womersley, H. 1937: Acarina. Scientific reports of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 (C) 10(6): 1-24. PDF Reference page.  [first availability, see p. 7, and Plate II, figs. 1-4]