Species Gamasellus concinus (Womersley, 1942)

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• Digamasellus concina Womersley, H. 1942. Additions to the Acarina-Parasitoidea of Australia. Part I. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 66: 142-171.

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Gamasellus concinnus (Womersley, 1942) [subsequent misspelling]. —
  Womersley, H. 1956. On some new Acarina-Mesostigmata from Australia, New Zealand and New Guinea. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 42: 505-599

Introduction

Womersley (1942) described this species as Digamasellus concina. Later (Womersley, 1956), he stated that the spelling concina had been a lapsus calami, and that he had intended concinna. At the same time he corrected the gender of the name, to make it concinnus. However, the original spelling concina cannot be considered as incorrect, since it occurs five times in the 1942 paper, and there is no evidence in the original paper that this is anything other than what was intended. The original spelling is therefore here restored, and the emendation to concinnus is considered as unjustified.

General References

Beaulieu, F. & Walter, D.E. 2007. Predation in suspended and forest floor soils: observations on Australian mesostigmatic mites. Acarologia 47: 43–54 (as Gamasellus concinnus)

Castilho, R.C., Silva, E.S., de Moraes, G.J. & Halliday, B. 2016. Catalogue of the family Ologamasidae Ryke (Acari: Mesostigmata). Zootaxa 4197(1): 1-147. (as Gamasellus concinus)

Lee, D.C. 1973. Rhodacaridae (Acari : Mesostigmata) from near Adelaide, Australia. I. Systematics. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 16(14): 1-36 (as Gamasellus concinnus)

Lee, D.C. 1973. Rhodacaridae (Acari : Mesostigmata) from near Adelaide, Australia. II. Ecology. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 97: 139-151 (as Gamasellus concinnus)

Lee, D.C. 1974. Rhodacaridae (Acari : Mesostigmata) from near Adelaide, Australia. III. - Behaviour and development. Acarologia 16: 21-44 (as Gamasellus concinnus)

Lee, D.C. 1985. Mites of South Australian Soils. pp. 57-59 in . (eds) Western Australian Institute of Technology, School of Biology Bulletin number 12. Soil and Litter Invertebrates of Some Australian Mediterranean-Type Ecosystems. 57-59 pp. (as Gamasellus concinnus)

Ryke, P.A.J. 1962. A revision of the subgenera Cyrtolaelaps Berlese and Gamasellus Berlese of the genus Cyrtolaelaps Berlese and descriptions of new species (Acarina : Rhodacaridae). Memoirs of the Entomological Society of South Africa 7: 1-59 (as Cyrtolaelaps concinnus)

Womersley, H. 1956. On some new Acarina-Mesostigmata from Australia, New Zealand and New Guinea. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 42: 505-599 (as Digamasellus concinnus)

Womersley, H. 1961. New species of Acarina from the intertidal zone in Netherlands New Guinea. Zoologische Mededelingen (Leiden) 37: 189-209 (as Cyrtolaelaps concinnus)

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