Taxonavigation

Familia: Tydeidae
Subfamilia: Tydeinae
Genus: Tydeus
Species: Tydeus ministralis

Name

Tydeus ministralis Koch, 1838

• Type locality: Regensburg (Germany)
• Holotype: Lost.

Notes

• The species is one of the 11 Tydeus described by Koch (1838).
• Transferred to the family Ereynetidae by Oudemans (1928: 382) and Fain & Camerik (1994: 151)
• It is neither listed in the " ancient species" recorded by Kaźmierski (1998: 357) nor by Silva et al. (2016).

References

• Fain, A. & Camerik, A.M. 1994. Notes on the mites of the genus Ereynetes Berlese (Acari: Ereynetinae), with description of five new species from South Africa. Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, entomologie 64: 145–164. PDF. Reference page. 

• 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. 
• Koch, C.L. 1838. Deutschlands Crustaceen, Myriapoden und Arachniden. Ein Beitrag zur deutschen Fauna, Ein Beitrag zur deutschen Fauna, ser. Deutschlands Insecten ((Panzer) Herrich-Schäffer ed.), vol. 20, Regensburg. Plate 12.
• Oudemans, A.C. 1928. Acarologische aanteekeningen XCIV. Entomologische Berichten 7: 374–382 [516].
• 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.