Species Rhabdocarpais cunicularis (Womersley, 1956)

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• Eugamasus cunicularis 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.
• Parasitus womersleyi Nozza, B. 1964. Note intorno al Parasitidae (Acari, Parasitiformes). 1. - Parasitus bordoni. Rendiconti Istituto Lombardo di Scienze e Lettere 98: 274-280 [objective synonym].

Introduction

The taxonomy of this species is confused. Womersley (1956) described the new species Eugamasus cunicularis from a holotype female, paratype male, and six paratype deutonymphs. Nozza (1964) then created the new name Parasitus womersleyi as a replacement name for Eugamasus cunicularis and specified that this concept applied only to the female, but did not explain why this name change was necessary. Athias-Henriot (1981) placed cunicularis in her new genus Rhabdocarpais, but again specified that only the female was included in her concept of the species. This appears to suggest that Womersley's male and nymphs belong to a different species, but that species has not been identified.

General References

Athias-Henriot, C. 1981. Rhabdocarpais n. g. (type Gamasus mammilatus Berlese, 1904). Définition. Composition systématique (Parasitiformes, Parasitidae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 88: 141-156 (as Rhabdocarpais cunicularis)

Micherdzinski, W. 1969. Die Familie Parasitidae Oudemans 1901 (Acarina, Mesostigmata). Cracow : Zaklad Zoologii Systematycznej, Polskiej Akademii Nauk pp. 690. (as Parasitus cunicularis)

Nozza, B. 1964. Note intorno al Parasitidae (Acari, Parasitiformes). 1. - Parasitus bordoni. Rendiconti Istituto Lombardo di Scienze e Lettere 98: 274-280 (as Parasitus womersleyi)

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 Eugamasus cunicularis)

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