• Zerconopsis Hull, J.E. 1918. Terrestrial Acari of the Tyne Province. Transactions of the Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne 5: 13-88 pls I-III.

Introduction

The genus Zerconopsis is known from Australia on the basis of one described species (Halliday et al. 1998), but other species are present in collections (Walter & Lindquist 1995), and others have been reported by Walter (1999), Beaulieu & Walter (2007), Beaulieu et al. (2010) and Proctor et al. (2011).

Distribution

States

Victoria

IBRA

Vic: South East Coastal Plain (SCP)

General References

Beaulieu, F. & Walter, D.E. 2007. Predation in suspended and forest floor soils: observations on Australian mesostigmatic mites. Acarologia 47: 43–54

Beaulieu., F., Walter, D.E., Proctor, H.C. & Kitching, R.L. 2010. The canopy starts at 0.5 m: predatory mites (Acari: Mesostigmata) differ between rainforest floor soil and suspended soil at any height. Biotropica 42: 704–709 + supplementary pages 1–13

Halliday, R.B., Walter, D.E. & Lindquist, E.E. 1998. Revision of the Australian Ascidae (Acarina: Mesostigmata). Invertebrate Taxonomy 12: 1-54

Proctor, H., Kanowski, J., Catterall, C.P., Wardell-Johnson, G. & Reis, T. 2011. Rainforest-restoration success as judged by assemblages of soil- and litter-dwelling mites (Arachnida: Acari). Zoosymposia 6: 234–254

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. & Lindquist, E.E. 1995. The distributions of parthenogenetic ascid mites (Acari: Parasitiformes) do not support the biotic uncertainty hypothesis. Experimental and Applied Acarology 19: 423-442

History of changes

• Zerconopsis pristis Halliday, R.B., Walter, D.E. & Lindquist, E.E. 1998. Revision of the Australian Ascidae (Acarina: Mesostigmata). Invertebrate Taxonomy 12: 1-54.

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♀, Mt Eliza, Victoria.
  Paratype(s) ANIC 5 ♀ 2 ♂ (same details as holotype).

Distribution

States

Victoria

IBRA

Vic: South East Coastal Plain (SCP)

General References

Moraes, G.J. de, Britto, E.P.J., Mineiro, J.L.de C. & Halliday, B. 2016. Catalogue of the mite families Ascidae Voigts & Oudemans, Blattisociidae Garman and Melicharidae Hirschmann (Acari: Mesostigmata). Zootaxa 4112: 1-299. (as Zerconopsis pristis)

History of changes