Genus Tarsonemus Canestrini & Fanzago, 1876

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• Tarsonemus Canestrini, G. & Fanzago, F. 1876. Nuovi acari Italiani. (Seconda Serie). Atti della Società Veneto-Trentina di Scienze Naturali, Padova 5(1): 130-142.

 

Introduction

In addition to the named species listed here, unidentified species of Tarsonemus have been reported from Australia many times, for example by Womersley (1955), Richards (1971), Lowry (1980), Colloff et al. (1991), O'Dowd (1994), Noble et al. (1996), Longstaff et al. (1999), Walter (1995, 1999), Walter & O'Dowd (1992, 1999), Vega et al. (2007) and Beyer et al. (2011). Some of these records probably refer to specimens that will be placed in other genera when they are re-examined.

 

General References

Colloff, M.J., Stewart, G.A. & Thompson, P.J. 1991. House dust acarofauna and Der p I equivalent in Australia : the relative importance of Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus and Euroglyphus maynei. Clinical and Experimental Allergy 21: 225-230

Longstaff, B.C., Greenslade, P.J.M., Colloff, M., Reid, I., Hart, P. & Packer, I. 1999. Managing Soils in Agriculture. The Impact of Soil Tillage Practices on Soil Fauna. Canberra, Australia : Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation Publication No 99/18. pp. 65.

Lowry, J.W.J. 1980. Ecological Relationships of Western Australian Cavernicoles. MSc. Thesis, School of Zoology, University of New South Wales. Vol. 1 367 pp., Vol. 2 204 pp. + appendices

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

O'Dowd, D.J. 1994. Mite association with the leaf domatia of coffee (Coffea arabica) in north Queensland, Australia. Bulletin of Entomological Research 84: 361-366

Richards, A.M. 1971. An ecological study of the cavernicolous fauna of the Nullarbor Plain, southern Australia. Journal of Zoology, London 164: 1-60

Vega, F.E., Ochoa, R., Astorga, C. & Walter, D.E. 2007. Mites (Arachnida: Acari) inhabiting coffee domatia: a short review and recent findings from Costa Rica. International Journal of Acarology 33: 291–295

Walter, D.E. 1995. Dancing on the head of a pin: mites in the rainforest canopy. pp. 49-53 in M.S. Harvey (ed.). Australasian Spiders and their Relatives: Papers Honouring Barbara York Main. Records of the Western Australian Museum 52(Supplement)

Walter, D.E. 1999. Living on leaves: adaptations of Australian rainforest mites. pp. 73–78 in Needham, G.R., Mitchell, R., Horn, D.J. & Welbourn, W.C. Acarology IX. Volume 2. Symposia. Columbus, Ohio : Ohio Biological Survey.

Walter, D.E. & O'Dowd, D.J. 1992. Leaves with domatia have more mites. Ecology 73: 1514-1518

Walter, D.E. & O'Dowd, D.J. 1999. The good, the bad and the ugly: which really inhabit leaf domatia? pp. 215–220 in Needham, G.R., Mitchell, R., Horn, D.J. & Welbourn, W.C. Acarology IX. Volume 2. Symposia. Columbus, Ohio : Ohio Biological Survey.

Womersley, H. 1955. The acarina fauna of mutton birds' nests on a Bass Strait Island. Australian Journal of Zoology 3: 412-438

 

History of changes

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