• 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

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

• Pediculochelus lavoipierrei Price, D.W. 1973. Genus Pediculochelus (Acarina: Pediculochelidae) with notes on P. raulti and descriptions of two new species. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 66: 302-307.

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM, Briones Regional Park, Contra Costa County, California, USA.
  Paratype(s) USNM 4, Briones Regional Park, Contra Costa County, California, USA.; EMEC 15, Briones Regional Park, Contra Costa County, California, USA.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA

WA: Carnarvon (CAR)

General References

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

Norton, R.A., OConnor, B.M. & Johnston, D.E. 1983. Systematic relationships of the Pediculochelidae (Acari : Acariformes). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 85: 493-512 (as Paralycus lavoipierrei)

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 Paralycus lavoipierrei)

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 Paralycus lavoipierrei)

History of changes