Todothyas (Acerbitas) barbigera (Viets, 1908)

Cantallo, Harold, Gomes, Nuno, Antunes, Carlos, Martins, Duarte & Costa, Dimítri De Araújo, 2022, Checklist of water mites from mainland Portugal and its archipelagos, Zootaxa 5213 (4), pp. 336-370 : 345

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5213.4.2

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7385662

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scientific name

Todothyas (Acerbitas) barbigera (Viets, 1908)
status

 

Todothyas (Acerbitas) barbigera (Viets, 1908)

Synonyms: Thyas barbigera Viets, 1908 ; Todothyas incerta (Lundblad, 1941) (original designation)

Type material: Holotype deposited at SMNH ( Di Sabatino et al. 2009)

Type locality: Portugal, Madeira Island ( Di Sabatino et al. 2009)

Geographical distribution: Holarctic distribution ( Di Sabatino et al. 2009)

Distribution in Portugal: Azores, Madeira (Bica da Cana) ( Di Sabatino et al. 2009)

Ecological notes: Larval host on culicid midges with high dispersal capacity ( Di Sabatino et al. 2009).

Remarks: This species is synonymous with T. barbigera ( Di Sabatino et al. 2009) since Lundblad only relied on a deuteronymph to describe the species knowing its similarity.

Di Sabatino, A., Gerecke, R., Gledhill, T. & Smit, H. (2009) On the taxonomy of water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) described from the Palaearctic, part 2: Hydryphantoidea and Lebertioidea. Zootaxa, 2266 (1), 1 - 34. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 2266.1.1

SMNH

Department of Paleozoology, Swedish Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

SuperOrder

Acariformes

Order

Trombidiformes

SubOrder

Prostigmata

SuperFamily

Hydryphantoidea

Family

Hydryphantidae

SubFamily

Euthyadinae

Genus

Todothyas