Aturus Kramer, 1875

Smit, Harry, 2016, The water mite family Aturidae Thor (Acari: Hydrachnidia) from Ghana, with the description of twelve new species, Zootaxa 4158 (4), pp. 523-543 : 525

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4158.4.5

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:C904ADAE-1B46-4E42-8E43-186DE2A078BF

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6059223

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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/92673E50-FFCC-3500-C3ED-552FFEC47068

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Plazi

scientific name

Aturus Kramer, 1875
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Genus Aturus Kramer, 1875 View in CoL

The genus Aturus has a nearly cosmopolitan distribution, lacking only in the Australasian region . The highest species diversity is found in the Nearctic region ( Di Sabatino et al. 2008). In the Afrotropical region three species are known, all from East Africa . Below the first species is described for West Africa from Ghana. Females cannot be identified in many cases ( Gerecke et al. 2016), and therefore these records are given separately below.

Material examined. Ghana. 0/1/0, Kulugu River, upstream, hyporheic, 6º 51.223 N 0º 25.141 E, alt. 410 m a.s.l., 20-ii-2013 GoogleMaps ; 0/3/0, Stream downstream of Wanjakli Falls, Lipke Todome, 7º 0 9.976 N 0º 36.456 E, alt. 478 m a.s.l., 23-ii-2013 GoogleMaps .

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