Taxonavigation

Familia: Tydeidae
Subfamilia: Tydeinae
Genus: Lorryia
Species: Lorryia polaris

Name

Lorryia polaris Womersley, 1937

• Type locality: Commonwealth Bay, King George V Land, in 15-20 fathoms (Antartica)

Notes

• "...the lack of detail in the description and figures prevents any critical comparison" (Baker, 1968: 992).
• "Perhaps a synonym of Lorryia reticulata" (Kaźmierski, 1998: 357)
• Listed under Tydeus reticulata by Silva et al. (2016: 24)

References

• Baker, E.W. 1968. The genus Lorryia. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 61: 986–1008. DOI: 10.1093/aesa/61.4.986
• Buitendijk, A.M. 1945. Voorloopige Catalogus van de Acari in de Collectie-Oudemans. Zoologische Mededelingen 24: 281–391. PDF available via Naturalis Biodiversity Center.

• Kaźmierski, A. 1998. Tydeinae of the world: generic relationships, new and redescribed taxa and keys to all species. A revision of the subfamilies Pretydeinae and Tydeinae (Acari: Actinedida: Tydeidae) – part IV. Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia 41(2): 283–455. Reference page. 

• Silva, G.L. da, Metzelthin, M.H., Silva, O.S. da & Ferla, N.J. 2016. Catalogue of the mite family Tydeidae (Acari: Prostigmata) with the world key to the species. Zootaxa 4135(1): 1–68. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4135.1.1. Reference page. 

• Womersley, H. 1937: Acarina. Scientific reports of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 (C) 10(6): 1-24. PDF Reference page.  [first availability, see p. 8, and Plate II, figs. 5-9]