Paracarus hexophthalmus ( Redikorzev, 1937 )

Araújo, Marcel Santos De, Palma, Antonella Di & Feres, Reinaldo José Fazzio, 2020, Catalog of the Opilioacarida (Acari: Parasitiformes), Zootaxa 4895 (3), pp. 332-356 : 350

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4895.3.2

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4361458

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scientific name

Paracarus hexophthalmus ( Redikorzev, 1937 )
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9.1. Paracarus hexophthalmus ( Redikorzev, 1937) View in CoL

Paracarus hexophthalmus Chamberlin & Mulaik 1942: 126 View in CoL (new status); Hammen, 1968 (redescription); Dunlop et al. 2004 (new diagnosis)

Opilioacarus hexophthalmus Redikorzev, 1936: 10 , figs. 1–4 (original description)

Syntypes: 4 specimens (whereabouts unknown). KAZAKHSTAN, Semiretshje , Alexander mountain range, canyon of the river Tujuk, rocky crash, 22, 28.JUL.1931. coll. Dr. V. Schnitnikov.

Distribution: Semiretshje, Dzhungarskij Alatau ( Kazakhstan).

Note: Hammen redescribed P. hexophthalmus from non-type material from Dzhungarskij Alatau. In addition, according to Hammen (1966), the type would be deposited in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), but the material was not found in the Bregetova collection of the Zoological Institute ( Maria Stanyukovich and Sergey Mironov , pers. com.) or at the University of Tyumen ( Alexander Khaustov and Sergey Ermilov , pers. com.) .

Etymology: From Greek hexa (six) + ophthalmós (eyes), due the presence of six pairs of eyes on the prodorsal shield.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Opilioacarida

Family

Opilioacaridae

Genus

Paracarus

Loc

Paracarus hexophthalmus ( Redikorzev, 1937 )

Araújo, Marcel Santos De, Palma, Antonella Di & Feres, Reinaldo José Fazzio 2020
2020
Loc

Paracarus hexophthalmus

Chamberlin, R. V. & Mulaik, S. 1942: 126
1942
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