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Gamasellodes vermivorax Walter 1987

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Gamasellodes vermivorax Walter , 1987

Gamasellodes vermivorax Walter, 1987: 1689.

Gamasellodes vermivorax.— Farrier & Hennessey, 1993: 34; Walter, 2003: 3; Gwiazdowicz & Walter, 2005: 65.

TYPE DEPOSITORY: United States National Museum of Natural History, Washington DC, USA. TYPE LOCALITY AND HABITAT: High Plains Grasslands Research Station, west of Cheyenne, Laramie, Wyoming, USA, on sod.

Notes

Published as part of De Moraes, Gilberto J., Britto, Erika P. J., Mineiro, Jefferson L. De C. & Halliday, Bruce, 2016, Catalogue of the mite families Ascidae Voigts & Oudemans, Blattisociidae Garman and Melicharidae Hirschmann (Acari: Mesostigmata), pp. 1-299 in Zootaxa 4112 (1) on page 114, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4112.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/399477

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References

  • Walter, D. E. (1987) Life history, trophic behavior, and description of Gamasellodes vermivorax n. sp. (Mesostigmata: Ascidae), a predator of nematodes and arthropods in semiarid grassland soils. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 65, 1689 - 1695. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1139 / z 87 - 261
  • Farrier, M. H. & Hennessey, M. K. (1993) Soil-inhabiting and free-living Mesostigmata (Acari-Parasitiformes) from North America. An annotated checklist with bibliography and index. North Carolina Agricultural Research Service, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, Technical Bulletin, 302, 1 - 408.
  • Walter, D. E. (2003) The genus Gamasellodes (Acari: Mesostigmata: Ascidae): New Australian and North American species. Systematic & Applied Acarology Special Publications, 15, 1 - 10. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.11158 / saasp. 15.1.1
  • Gwiazdowicz, D. J. & Walter, D. E. (2005) Gamasellodes tatricus sp. nov. (Acari: Ascidae) from Poland. Systematic & Applied Acarology, 10, 61 - 66. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.11158 / saa. 10.1.8