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Eylais extendens ( Müller, 1776 )

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 : 341

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 Eylais extendens ( Müller, 1776 )
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Eylais extendens ( Müller, 1776)

Synonyms: Hydrachna extendens Müller, 1776 (original designation); Eylais undulosa Koenike, 1897 ; Eylais muelleri Koenike, 1897 ; Eylais limnophila Piersig, 1899 ; Eylais soari Piersig, 1899 ; Eylais similis Thon, 1899 ; Eylais tenera Thon, 1899 ; Eylais mosquensis Croneberg, 1899 ; Eylais unisinuata Croneberg, 1902 ; Eylais instabilis Halbert, 1903 ; Eylais similis gibberipons Viets, 1910; Eylais sugambra Koep, 1911 ; Eylais thienemanni Koenike, 1911 ; Eylais monofissa Szalay, 1934 ; Eylais szalayi Husiatinschi, 1939

Type material: Unknown, possibly lost.

Type locality: Denmark (probably surroundings of Copenhagen) or Norway ( Müller 1776) .

Geographical distribution: Western Palaearctic ( Davids et al. 2006).

Distribution in Portugal: Centre: Beira Litoral, Alcobaça municipality; South: Alentejo, Guadiana River-between Serpa and Beja municipalities ( Lundblad 1956; Valdecasas 1988).

Ecological notes: In oligotrophic and euritrophic slow-moving waters and sensitive to high electrolyte concentrations (absent in brackish water) ( Davids et al. 2006), present in dead twigs, plants, such as grasses, Alisma spp. , Myriophyllum spp. and Scirpus spp. ( Lundblad 1956) ; Larval insects hosts: parasitic of 26 different water beetle species from families Dytiscidae , Haliplidae , Noteridae , Lacophilidae, and Hydrophilidae ( Davids et al. 2006) .

Davids, K., Bartsch, I., Deichsel, R., Di Sabatino, A., Gabrys, G., Gledhill, T., Jager, P., Makol, J., Smit, H., van der Hammen, H., Weigmann, G., Wohltmann, A. & Wurst, E. (2006) s. n. In: Gerecke, R. (Ed.), Susswasserfauna von Mitteleuropa. Vol. 7 / 2 - 1 Chelicerata: Araneae / Acari I. 1 st Edition. Springer, Berlin and Heidelberg, pp. I - X + 1 - 388. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / 978 - 3 - 662 - 55958 - 1

Koenike, F. (1911) Sechs neue norddeutsche Wassermilben. Abhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins zu Bremen, 20, 236 - 256.

Lundblad, O. (1956) Zur Kenntnis sud- und mitteleuropaischer Hydrachnellen. Arkiv for Zoologi 10, 1 - 306, tafel LXXXIV.

Muller, O. F. (1776) s. n. In: Muller, O. F. (Ed.), Zoologiae Danicae Prodromus, seu Animalium Daniae et Norvegiae indigenarum characteres, nomina, et synonyma imprimis popularium. Hallageriis, Havniae, pp. i - xxxii + 1 - 282. [http: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / item / 47550] https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 13268

Thon, K. (1899) Ein neues Hydrachnidengenus aus Bohmen, nebst einigen Bemerkungen uber bohmische Hydryphantes - Formen. (Vorlaufige Mitteilung). Zoologischer Anzeiger, 22, 100 - 102.

Valdecasas, A. G. (1988) Lista sinonimica y bibliografica de las Hidracnelas (Acari, Hydrachnellae) de la Peninsula Iberica, Islas Baleares e Islas Canarias. Lista de la flora y fauna de las aguas continentales de la Peninsula Iberica. Publicacion no 5. Asociacion Espanola de Limnologia, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC), Madrid, 81 pp. [http: // www. limnetica. net / documentos / listas / Lista _ 5 _ Hidracnelas. pdf]

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

SuperOrder

Acariformes

Order

Trombidiformes

SubOrder

Prostigmata

SuperFamily

Eylaoidea

Family

Eylaidae

Genus

Eylais

Specimens