Species Acrotritia spiculifera (Mahunka, 1991)

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• Rhysotritia clavata spiculifera Mahunka, S. 1991. New and interesting mites from the Geneva Museum LXVII. Soil inhabiting ptychoid oribatids from Malaysia (Acari: Oribatida). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 98: 325–354.

Introduction

Subias (2004, 2011) treated A. spiculifera as a synonym of A. sinensis Jacot, 1923, but it is here considered as valid following Liu & Zhang (2014).

General References

Liu, D. 2015. Review of the genus Acrotritia (Acari, Oribatida, Euphthiracaridae) with a world checklist, a key to known species of the Neotropical Region, and a description of a new species from Colombia. Systematic and Applied Acarology 20: 887-906. (as Acrotritia spiculifera)

Liu, D. & Zhang, Z.-Q. 2014. Redescription of Austrotritia lebronneci (Oribotritiidae) and description of two new species of Euphthiracaridae (Acari, Oribatida) from Australian Region. International Journal of Acarology 40: 43-51 (as Acrotritia spiculifera)

Niedbała, W. 1998. Ptyctimous mites of the Pacific Islands. Recent knowledge, origin, descriptions, redescriptions, diagnoses and zoogeography (Acari: Oribatida). Genus (Wroclaw) 9: 431–558 (as Rhysotritia spiculifera)

Niedbała, W. 2000. The Ptyctimous Mites Fauna of the Oriental and Australian Regions and their Centres of Origin (Acari: Oribatida). Wrocław : Polskie Towarzystwo Taksonomiczne pp. 493. (as Rhysotritia spiculifera)

Niedbała, W. 2006. Supplement to the knowledge of ptyctimous mites (Acari: Oribatida) from Australian Region. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 56 (Supplement): 99–156 (as Acrotritia spiculifera)

Niedbała, W. 2012. An updated study of ptyctimous mite fauna (Acari: Oribatida) of the Australasian Region with a description of thirteen new species. Acarologia 52: 183–228 (as Acrotritia spiculifera)

Niedbała, W. 2014. Two new species of ptyctimous mites (Acari: Oribatida) from Australasia with notes on the morphology of other Australasian species. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 41: 187-192. (as Acrotritia spiculifera)

Niedbała, W. 2017. New ptyctimous mites (Oribatida: Phthiracaroidea) from Australia. International Journal of Acarology 43: 73-85 (as Acrotritia spiculifera)

Niedbała, W. & Liu, D. 2018. Catalogue of ptyctimous mites (Acari, Oribatida) of the world. Zootaxa 4393(1): 1-238 (as Acrotritia spiculifera)

Subias, L.S February 2011. Listado sistemático, sinonímico y biogeográfico de los ácaros oribátidos (Acariformes: Oribatida) del mundo (excepto fósiles). Departamento de Zoología, Facultad de Biología, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain. http://www.ucm.es/info/zoo/Artropodos/Catalogo.pdf [date of access 1 October 2011]

Subias, L.S. 2004. Listado sistemático, sinonímico y biogeográfico de los ácaros oribátidos (Acariformes, Oribatida) del mundo (1758-2002). Graellsia 60 (Supplement): 3–305

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