Phthiracarus italicus

van der Hammen, L., 1959, Berlese's Primitive Oribatid Mites, Zoologische Verhandelingen 40, pp. 1-93 : 48-49

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ORI111

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6285458

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Phthiracarus italicus
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Phthiracarus italicus View in CoL (Oudemans, 1900)

Hoploderma italicum Oudemans , 1900b, p. 170.

Hoplophora dasypus , Berlese, 1883a, fasc. 6 (4).

Hoploderma italicum Oudemans , 1915, p. 216.

Berlese considered material from North Italy identical with Oribates dasypus Duges (1834), a species of uncertain identity. Oudemans placed dasypus in the synonymy of Acarus piger Scopoli (1763), a species of which even the relation to a family is unknown. Because Berlese's dasypus is not identical with the species that Oudemans identified as " piger (= dasypus )", Oudemans gave the name italicus to dasypus sensu Berlese.

In a previous paper (Van der Hammen, 1952) I noted already that Oudemans's own italicus material is heterogeneous. One of his specimens possibly represents the same species as mentioned by Willmann (1931, p. 193) sub P. italicus ; it may be testudineus (C. L. Koch, 1841) sensu Jacot (1936, p. 170, figs. 7-12).

Berlese's dasypus resembles testudineus indeed, but the recorded length (1 mm) does not fit in with this species.

I have seen one slide (no. 31/22) in the Berlese Collection, which according to the label contains Tritia reticulata , Phtiracarus magnus , and Phtiracarus dasypus (locality: Tiarno). Apart from Pseudotritia reticulata the slides appeared to contain two species that are probably Phthiracarus laevigatus (C. L. Koch) and Steganacarus applicatus (Sellnick) ; I do not know which of these two species was identified by Berlese as dasypus but at any rate they do not represent the figured specimen.

It will be useful to designate a specimen of testudineus or a related species from the type-locality as neotype of P. italicus ; in this way italicus becomes either a synonym or the name of a good species.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Sarcoptiformes

Family

Phthiracaridae

Genus

Phthiracarus

Loc

Phthiracarus italicus

van der Hammen, L. 1959
1959
Loc

Hoploderma italicum Oudemans

Michael 1898
1898
Loc

Hoploderma italicum Oudemans

Michael 1898
1898
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