Bdellodes lapidaria (Kramer)

Halliday, R. B., 2005, Predatory mites from crops and pastures in South Africa: potential natural enemies of redlegged earth mite Halotydeus destructor (Acari: Penthaleidae), Zootaxa 1079, pp. 11-64 : 26

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.170355

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6265911

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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6D765421-BC5C-852F-857F-B57413887D28

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scientific name

Bdellodes lapidaria (Kramer)
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Bdellodes lapidaria (Kramer)

Bdella lapidaria Kramer, 1881: 444 .

Biscirus lapidarius: Womersley, 1933b: 85 ; 1933c: 106.

Thoribdella lapidaria: Atyeo & Tuxen, 1962: 295 .

Bdellodes lapidaria: Atyeo, 1963a: 133 ; 1963b: 188; Wallace & Mahon, 1976: 70; Gerson & Smiley, 1990: 54; Gerson et al., 2003: 94.

Specimens examined: Site 94­2, 1 female, 1 male, 2 N; Site 94­14, 1 female; Site 94­31, 1 female, 1 male; Site 94­33, 1 female, 1 male; Site 99­17, 1 female.

Bdellodes lapidaria is widespread in Europe, and was first observed in Western Australia in 1931, where it appears to have been accidentally introduced ( Womersley, 1933a, b). It was quickly shown to be beneficial in helping to control the pest collembolan Sminthurus viridis L. ( Womersley, 1933a; Gerson & Smiley, 1990; Gerson et al., 2003). It was deliberately redistributed ( Currie, 1934), and was later found to be widespread in southern Australia and New Zealand ( Atyeo, 1963a, b; Wallace & Mahon, 1971). It was subsequently introduced from Australia into South Africa in an attempt to control the same pest ( Wallace & Walters, 1974). B. lapidaria was found only in low numbers during the recent surveys.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Prostigmata

Family

Bdellidae

Genus

Bdellodes

Loc

Bdellodes lapidaria (Kramer)

Halliday, R. B. 2005
2005
Loc

Bdellodes lapidaria:

Gerson 2003: 94
Gerson 1990: 54
Wallace 1976: 70
Atyeo 1963: 133
1963
Loc

Thoribdella lapidaria:

Atyeo 1962: 295
1962
Loc

Biscirus lapidarius:

Womersley 1933: 85
1933
Loc

Bdella lapidaria

Kramer 1881: 444
1881
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