Taxonavigation

Familia: Phthiracaridae
Genus: Austrophthiracarus
Species: Austrophthiracarus pulchellus

Name

Austrophthiracarus pulchellus Niedbała, 1993: 153

• Original genus: Austrophthiracarus Balogh & Mahunka, 1978
• Original status: valid species
• Primary type: holotype
  • Fixation: designated and unique
  • Description: adult
  • Repository: NZAC [general statement, see p. 137]
• Type locality: 'Bluff, beside water reservoir, ... Altitude 350 ft (108 m)' [NEW ZEALAND SL]
• ZooBank: 7211795E-A3F9-44D3-B8E6-6D77A009ECB8

References

• Niedbała, W. 1993: New species of Euptyctima (Acari, Oribatida) from New Zealand. New Zealand journal of zoology 20(3): 137–159. DOI: 10.1080/03014223.1993.10422856 Reference page.  [See p. 153, and figs. 62-68; original description]

• Niedbała, W. 2000: The ptyctimous mites fauna of the Oriental and Australian regions and their centres of origin (Acari: Oribatida). Genus, supplement (10) Reference page.  [See p. 396]

• Niedbała, W. 2006: Supplement to the knowledge of ptyctimous mites (Acari: Oribatida) from Australian Region. Annales zoologici 56(Supplement 1): 99–156. abstract Reference page.  [See p. 125, and fig. 9H]

• Subías Esteban, L.S. 2004. Listado sistemático, sinonímico y biogeográfico de los ácaros oribátidos (Acariformes, Oribatida) del mundo (1758–2002). Graellsia 60(número extraordinario): 3–305. Abstract and PDF. Electronic update (PDF). Reference page.  [See p. 57, as Phthiracarus pulchellus]

Selected links

• Qin, T.-K.; Henderson, R.C; Crosby, T.K.: Primary type specimens in the New Zealand Arthropod Collection (NZAC): Acari. Version 1 - June 1997

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