Genus Paralycus Womersley, 1944

Museums

Regional Maps

• Paralycus Womersley, H. 1944. Australian Acarina, families Alycidae and Nanorchestidae. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 68: 133-143.
• Pediculochelus Lavoipierre, M.M.J. 1946. A new acarine parasite of bees. Nature (London) 158: 130-131.

Introduction

In addition to the named species listed here, unidentified species of Paralycus have been reported from Australia by Noble et al. (1996a, 1996b), Colloff & Halliday (1998) and Beyer et al. (2011).

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Carnarvon (CAR)

General References

Beyer, S., Kinnear, A., Hutley, L.B., McGuiness, K. & Gibb, K. 2011. Assessing the relationship between fire and grazing on soil characteristics and mite communities in a semi-arid savanna of northern Australia. Pedobiologia 54: 195–200

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

Noble, J.C., Tongway, D.J., Roper, M.M. & Whitford, W.G. 1996a. Fire studies in mallee (Eucalyptus spp.) communities of western New South Wales: spatial and temporal fluxes in soil chemistry and soil biology following prescribed fire. Pacific Conservation Biology 2: 398-413

Noble, J.C., Whitford, W.G. & Kaliszewski, M. 1996b. Soil and litter microarthropod populations from two contrasting ecosystems in semi-arid eastern Australia. Journal of Arid Environments 32: 329-346

History of changes