Taxonavigation

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

Name

Tydeus popocatepetlensis Baker, 1943

• Type locality: moss and lichens on Popocatépetl, alt. 3700 m (Mexico).
• Holotype: ♀.

Notes

• Listed as "ancient species" by Kaźmierski (1998: 357-8).
• As Tydeus popocatepetlensis is junior synonym of Tydeus zempoalensis, wich is, in his turn, a junior synonym of Tydeus kochi, it turns out that Tydeus popocatepetlensis is also a junior synonym of Tydeus kochi. The second synonymy recalled by Kaźmierski (1998: 358) is rejected by André (2005: 981).
• Species not listed by Silva et al. (2016)

References

• André, H.M. 2005. In search of the true Tydeus (Acari: Tydeidae). Journal of Natural History 39: 975–1001. Reference page. 
• Baker, E.W. 1943. Nuevos Tydeidae Mexicanos (Acarina). Revista de la Sociedad Mexicana de Historia Natural 4: 181–190. Reference page. 
• Baker, E.W. 1947. Notes on mites of the family Tydeidae (Acarina) with descriptions of two new species. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 49: 133–136. 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. 

• 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.