Ophidiotrichus tectus (Michael, 1884)

Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo & Giulio, Andrea Di, 2021, Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from “ Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime ” (Piedmont, Italy), Zootaxa 5082 (6), pp. 501-540 : 526-527

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5082.6.1

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5798382

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0399FB6B-B33E-A053-588D-F8D1FF397209

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scientific name

Ophidiotrichus tectus (Michael, 1884)
status

 

Ophidiotrichus tectus (Michael, 1884) View in CoL

Ophidiotrichus tectus Weigmann 2006, p. 360 View in CoL View Cited Treatment , fig. 192c.

Parco Naturale delle Alpi Marittime: AB single records, FRA, PAL sparse, FAG very numerous.

General distribution: Northern, southern Italy; Italian, Swiss, Austrian Alps; southwestern Palaearctic; Mediterranean?

Habitat preferences: silvicolous; xerophilous.

Remarks: Body length 250–270 µm. Several specimens from the present collection remind O. oglasae Bernini, 1975 in its shape of the anterior lamella (large lateral tooth on cuspis, short and round incision between cusps, Bernini 1975), but the interlamellar setae are short which is characteristic for O. tectus , in contrast to long interlamellar setae in O. oglasae (and O. corsicanus Bernini & Avanzati, 1983 ) confirming the assignment to O. tectus .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Sarcoptiformes

Family

Oribatellidae

Genus

Ophidiotrichus

Loc

Ophidiotrichus tectus (Michael, 1884)

Schatz, Heinrich, Fortini, Lorenzo, Fusco, Tommaso, Casale, Francesca, Jacomini, Carlo & Giulio, Andrea Di 2021
2021
Loc

Ophidiotrichus tectus

Weigmann, G. 2006: 360
2006
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