Taxonavigation

Familia: Paratydeidae
Genus: Scolotydaeus

Name

Scolotydaeus Berlese, 1910

• Original status: genus
• Gender: masculine
• Type species: Scolotydaeus bacillus by original designation

Notes

• The genus was described by Berlese (1910: 214) with no explicit assignation. It was described between Tydaeolus and Coleotydaeus, two tydeid genera at that time.
• The genus was moved from the Tydeidae and placed in the Paratydeidae by Baker (1950: 289).

References

• Berlese, A. 1910. Acari nuovi. Redia 6: 199-234.
• Baker, E.W. 1950. Further notes on the family Paratydeidae (Acarina), with a description of another new genus and species. Journal of The Washington Academy of Sciences 40: 289–291.