Species Odontacarus attolus (Banks, 1916)

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• Rhyncholophus attolus Banks, N. 1916. Acarians from Australian and Tasmanian ants and ant-nests. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 40: 224-240 pls XXIII-XXX.

Introduction

The original description of this species by Banks (1916) is very brief and lacks some important details. The correct generic placement of the species is therefore uncertain.

General References

Beron, P. 2008. Acarorum Catalogus. I. Acariformes: Calyptostomatoidea (Calyptostomatidae), Erythraeoidea (Smarididae, Erythraeidae). Sofia : Pensoft pp. 271. (as Rhyncholophus attolus, species inquirenda)

Goff, M.L. 1989. Catalog of types in the National Chigger Collection of the U. S. National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution (Acari : Trombiculidae). Bulletin of the Society of Vector Ecology 14: 95-134 (as Rhyncholophus attolus)

Gunther, C.E.M. 1952. A check list of the Trombiculid larvae of Asia and Australasia. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 77: 1-60 (as Acomatocarus attolus)

Mąkol, J., Łaydanowicz, J. & Kłosińska, A. 2010. Myrmecophilous Parasitengona (Acari: Prostigmata) - accident or adaptation? Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 60: 429–437 (as [?] Dromeothrombidium attolus)

Southcott, R.V. 1986. The genus Odontacarus (Acarina : Trombiculidae). II. Observations on the life history and morphology of Odontacarus swani n. sp., and related forms. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 19: 169-200 (as Odontacarus attolus)

Southcott, R.V. & Frances, S.P. 1991. The life history stages of Odontacarus (Leogonius) barrinensis (Womersley) (Acari : Trombiculidae : Leeuwenhoekiinae). International Journal of Acarology 17: 275-287 (as Odontacarus attolus)

Thor, S. & Willmann, C. 1947. Fam. Trombidiidae. Das Tierreich 71b: 187-541 (as Dromeothrombium attolus)

Womersley, H. 1934. A revision of the trombid and erythraeid mites of Australia with descriptions of new genera and species. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 5: 179-254 (as Microtrombidium attolus)

Womersley, H. 1937. A revision of the Australian Trombidiidae (Acarina). Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 6: 75-100 (as Microtrombidium attolus)

Womersley, H. 1942. Additions to the Acarina of Australia (Trombidiidae and Calyptostomidae). Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 7: 169-181 (as Microtrombidium attolus)

Womersley, H. 1945. Acarina of Australia and New Guinea. The family Leeuwenhoekiidae. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 69: 96-113 (as Acomatocarus attolus)

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