Species Epilohmannia minuta Berlese, 1920

Museums

Regional Maps

• Epilohmannia pallida australica Lee, D.C. 1985. Sarcoptiformes (Acari) of South Australian soils. 4. Primitive oribate mites (Cryptostigmata) with an extensive, unfissured hysteronotal shield and aptychoid. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 19: 39-67.

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA N198312 ♀, Chambers Gully, South Australia.
  Paratype(s) SAMA N198313, N198314 2 ♀ (same data as holotype); SAMA N198315, N198316 2 ♀, Piccaninnie Ponds, South Australia.
• Epilohmannia minuta Berlese, A. 1920. Centuria quinta di Acari nuovi. Redia. Giornale di entomologia, Firenze 14: 143-195.
• Epilohmannia pallida Wallwork, J.A. 1962. Some Oribatei from Ghana. XI. The genus Epilohmannia Berlese 1916. Acarologia 4: 671-693.

Introduction

Balogh & Balogh (2002) described Epilohmannia pallida sensu lato as being ?cosmopolitan, presumably referring to the existence of several subspecies. Details of these are listed by Subias (2011).

Distribution

States

South Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

SA: Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP)

General References

Balogh, J. & Balogh, P. 2002. Identification Keys to the Oribatid Mites of the Extra-Holarctic Regions. Miskolc. : Well-Press Publishing Vol. 1, 453 pp. + Vol. 2, 504 pp. (as Epilohmannia pallida)

Colloff, M.J. & Halliday, R.B. 1998. Oribatid Mites: A Catalogue of the Australian Genera and Species. Melbourne : CSIRO Publications. (as Epilohmannia pallida)

Longstaff, B.C., Greenslade, P.J.M., Colloff, M., Reid, I., Hart, P. & Packer, I. 1999. Managing Soils in Agriculture. The Impact of Soil Tillage Practices on Soil Fauna. Canberra, Australia : Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation Publication No 99/18. pp. 65. (as Epilohmannia pallida)

Shtanchaeva, U.Y. 1996. The world fauna of oribatid mites of the family Epilohmanniidae. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 75: 516-532 (as Epilohmannia pallida)

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] (as Epilohmannia minuta)

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

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