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Acutoppia crassiseta

Description

Acutoppia crassiseta (Hammer, 1968)

Operculoppia crassiseta: Hammer, 1968:24 -25 [NewZealand].

Material studied. Estancia Ushuaia (2) and Reserva corazón de la Isla (3)

Distribution. Australasian (New Zealand).

Remarks. The species was described as Operculoppia crassiseta by Hammer in 1968 found at Arthur's Pass, in the New Zealand Alps of the South Island of New Zealand; the specimens were collected from a nest of Nestor notabilis, a psitaciform bird species. Then Balogh (1983) proposed the new genus Acutoppia, which Acutoppia crassiseta as type species.

Notes

Published as part of Ruiz, E. V., Rizzuto, S. & Martinez, P. A., 2018, New records of oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) from Argentina, pp. 194-200 in Zootaxa 4370 (2) on page 197, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4370.2.8, http://zenodo.org/record/1143855

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Oppiidae
Genus
Acutoppia
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Sarcoptiformes
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Hammer
Species
crassiseta
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Acutoppia crassiseta (Hammer, 1968) sec. Ruiz, Rizzuto & Martinez, 2018

References

  • Hammer, M. (1968) Investigations on the Oribatid fauna of New Zealand. Part III. Biologiske Skrifter Danske Videnskabernes Selskab, 16 (2), 1 - 96.
  • Balogh, J. (1983) A partial revision of the Oppida Grandjean, 1954 (Acari: Oribatei). Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 29, 1 - 79.