Species Calcarmyobia miniopteris (Womersley, 1941)

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• Myobia miniopteris Womersley, H. 1941. Notes on the Cheyletidae (Acarina, Trombidoidea) of Australia and New Zealand, with descriptions of new species. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 7: 51-64.
• Calcarmyobia orianae orianae Uchikawa, K. 1985. Calcarmyobia from the Oriental and Australasian regions (Acarina, Myobiidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology 48: 27-44.

Introduction

Some specimens of Calcarmyobia miniopteris have previously been misidentified as other species, including Acanthophthirius minimus (Womersley), Calcarmyobia rhinolophia (Radford) and Calcarmyobia australasiae Fain & Luknoschus. See Domrow (1991) for details.

General References

Domrow, R. 1959. Acarina from Australian bats. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 83: 227-240 (as Calcarmyobia miniopteris)

Domrow, R. 1991. Acari Prostigmata (excluding Trombiculidae) parasitic on Australian vertebrates : an annotated checklist, keys and bibliography. Invertebrate Taxonomy 4: 1238-1376 (as Calcarmyobia miniopteris)

Fain, A. 1978. Les Myobiidae d'Afrique au sud du Sahara et de Madagascar (Acarina - Prostigmata). Annales du Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale Tervuren Belgique 224: 1-186 (as Calcarmyobia rhinolophia)

Fain, A. & Lukoschus, F.S. 1979. Parasites of Western Australia. VI. Myobiidae parasitic on bats (Acarina : Prostigmata). Records of the Western Australian Museum 7: 61-107 (as Calcarmyobia miniopteris)

Fain, A. & Lukoschus, F.S. 1980. Notes on the genus Calcarmyobia Radford, 1948 (Acari, Myobiidae). Bulletin et Annales de la Société Royale Belgique d'Entomologie 116: 45-47 (as Calcarmyobia miniopteris)

Jameson, E.W. 1955. A summary of the genera of Myobiidae (Acarina). Journal of Parasitology 41: 407-416 (as Calcarmyobia rhinolophia)

Uchikawa, K. 1985. Calcarmyobia from the Oriental and Australasian regions (Acarina, Myobiidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology 48: 27-44 (as Calcarmyobia miniopteris)

Uchikawa, K. 1985. Mites of the genus Calcarmyobia (Acarina, Myobiidae) with information on the taxonomy of their host bats of the genus Miniopterus (Chiroptera, Miniopteridae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology 48: 15-25 (as Calcarmyobia miniopteris)

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