Species Sphaerotarsus womersleyi Southcott, 1946

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• Sphaerotarsus womersleyi Southcott, R.V. 1946. On the family Smarididae (Acarina). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 70: 173-178.
• Caeculisoma ripicola 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 [nymph].
• Sphaerotarsus allmani Womersley, H. 1936. Additions to the Trombidiid and Erythraeid acarine fauna of Australia and New Zealand. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 40: 107-121 [nymph].

Introduction

Sphaerotarsus womersleyi and some related species have been involved in a complex series of misidentifications. For an explanation of the complex nomenclatural situation surrounding these species, see Southcott (1946).

General References

Beron, P. 2008. Acarorum Catalogus. I. Acariformes: Calyptostomatoidea (Calyptostomatidae), Erythraeoidea (Smarididae, Erythraeidae). Sofia : Pensoft pp. 271. (as Sphaerotarsus ripicolus and Sphaerotarsus womersleyi)

Mąkol, J. & Wohltmann, A. 2012. An annotated checklist of terrestrial Parasitengona (Actinotrichida: Prostigmata) of the world, excluding Trombiculidae and Walchiidae. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 62: 359–562 (as Sphaerotarsus womersleyi)

Southcott, R.V. 1946. On the family Smarididae (Acarina). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 70: 173-178

Southcott, R.V. 1960. Notes on the genus Sphaerotarsus (Acarina : Smarididae). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 83: 149-161 (as Sphaerotarsus womersleyi)

Womersley, H. 1936. Additions to the Trombidiid and Erythraeid acarine fauna of Australia and New Zealand. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 40: 107-121 (as Caeculisoma ripicola nymph)

Womersley, H. & Southcott, R.V. 1941. Notes on the Smarididae (Acarina) of Australia and New Zealand. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 65: 61-78 (as Sphaerotarsus ripicolus)

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