Genus Meyeraepalpus Smiley, Frost & Gerson, 1996

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• Meyeraepalpus Smiley, R.L., Frost, W.E. & Gerson, U. 1996. A revision of the subfamily Tegopalpinae, with the descriptions of two new genera and five new species (Acari: Tenuipalpidae). International Journal of Acarology 22: 167-180 [178].

  Type species:

   Meyeraepalpus delfinadae Smiley, Frost & Gerson, 1996 by original designation.

Introduction

From Beard et al. 2014: "Smiley et al. (1996) designated Meyeraepalpus delfinadae as the type species for the genus, which also included Me. strandtmanni. Mesa et al. (2009) moved Me. delfinadae to Aegyptobia and erected the new genus Magdalenapalpus for Me. strandtmanni. Recently we were able to recollect Me. delfinadae, remount specimens studied by Smiley et al. (1996), study fresh specimens under the low temperature scanning electron microscope, and perform a cladistic analysis to show that Meyeraepalpus is in fact a valid genus, and is rediagnosed above. We agree with Mesa et al. (2009) that the second species originally grouped with Me. delfinadae, Ma. strandtmanni, does in fact represent a different genus and accept Magdalenapalpus."

General References

Beard, J.J., Seeman, O.D. & Bauchan, G.R. 2014. Tenuipalpidae (Acari: Trombidiformes) from Casuarinaceae (Fagales). Zootaxa 3778: 1-157 [69]

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