Species Biscirus arenarius Wallace & Mahon, 1973
Introduction
Womersley (1933) and Atyeo (1963) recorded Biscirus silvaticus from Australia, and this record was repeated by Hernandes et al. (2016). That record was incorrect, and these specimens actually belong to B. arenarius.
General References
Atyeo, W.T. 1963. The Bdellidae (Acarina) of the Australian realm. Part II. Australia and Tasmania. Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum 4(8): 167-210 (as Biscirus silvaticus)
Hernandes, F.A., Skvarla, M.J., Fisher, J.R., Dowling, A.P.G., Ochoa, R., Ueckermann, E.A. & Bauchan, G.R. 2016. Catalogue of snout mites (Acariformes: Bdellidae) of the world. Zootaxa 4152: 1-83 (as Biscirus arenarius)
Womersley, H. 1933. A preliminary account of the Bdellidae (Snout mites) of Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 57: 97-107 (as Biscirus silvaticus)
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