Species Stereotydeus occidentalis Womersley, 1935

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• Stereotydeus occidentale Womersley, H. 1935. On some Australian and South African species of Acarina of the genus Stereotydeus (Penthalodidae). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 60: 79-82 [original spelling].
• Stereotydeus occidentalis Womersley, H. 1935. On some Australian and South African species of Acarina of the genus Stereotydeus (Penthalodidae). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 60: 79-82 [emendation].

Introduction

Some of Womersley's (1935) syntype specimens of Stereotydeus occidentalis were misidentified, and were transferred to S. brevipalpus by Qin (1994).

General References

Qin, T.K. 1994. Revision of the Australian Penthalodidae (Acarina). Invertebrate Taxonomy 8: 1305-1323 (as Stereotydeus occidentalis)

Qin, T.K. 1998. A checklist and key to species of Eupodoidea (Acari: Prostigmata) from Australia and New Zealand and their subantarctic islands. Records of the Western Australian Museum 28: 295-307 (as Stereotydeus occidentalis)

Qin, T.K. & Halliday, R.B. 1997. Eriorhynchidae, a new family of Prostigmata (Acarina), with a cladistic analysis of eupodoid species of Australia and New Zealand. Systematic Entomology 22: 151-171 (as Stereotydeus occidentalis)

Strandtmann, R.W. 1979. Distribution of mites of the family Penthalodidae (Arthropoda : Acarina). pp. 47-50 in Piffl, E. (ed.). Proceedings of the 4th International Congress of Acarology. Budapest : Akadémiai Kiadó. (as Stereotydeus occidentale)

Thor, S. & Willmann, C. 1941. Eupodidae, Penthalodidae, Penthaleidae, Rhagidiidae, Pachygnathidae, Cunaxidae. Das Tierreich 71a: 1-186 (as Stereotydeus occidentalis)

Womersley, H. 1935. On some Australian and South African species of Acarina of the genus Stereotydeus (Penthalodidae). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 60: 79-82 (as Stereotydeus occidentalis)

Womersley, H. 1941. The red-legged earth mite (Acarina, Penthaleidae) of Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 65: 292-294 (as Stereotydeus occidentale)

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