Genus Topalia Balogh & Csiszár, 1963

Museums

Regional Maps

• Topalia Balogh, J. & Csiszár, J. 1963. The zoological results of Gy. Topál's collectings in South Argentina. 5. Oribatei (Acarina). Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici (Zoologica) 55: 463-485.

Introduction

The genus Topalia was known from Australia on the basis of unidentified species, as reported by Osler (1997), Hunt et al. (1998) and Colloff & Halliday (1998). Those species were formally described and named by Colloff (2019).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ) ; Tas: Tasmanian West (TWE) ; Vic: South Eastern Highlands (SEH)

Other Regions

Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater

General References

Colloff, M.J. 2019. The oribatid mite genus Topalia in Australia (Oribatida: Nosybeidae) and the taxonomic status of related families and genera. Zootaxa 4647(1): 290-321.

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

Hunt, G.S., Colloff, M.J., Dallwitz, M. & Walter, D.E. 1998. An Interactive Key to Oribatid Mites of Australia (CD-ROM). Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing.

Osler, G.H.R. 1997. Factors Contributing to the Structure of Soil Mite Communities. PhD thesis, Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University. 212 pp.

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