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Megeremaeus montanus Higgins and Woolley 1965
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Megeremaeus montanus Higgins and Woolley, 1965
Geographic Location: BC: Vancouver Is., Mt. Cain (Fagan et al. 2005); Walbran Valley (Lindo & Winchester 2006; Lindo 2010); Brooks Peninsula; Haida Gwaii, Cape Ball (Behan-Pelletier 1990).
Habitats: Amabilis fir; Western redcedar litter; decomposed cedar stump.
Distribution: Nearctic.
Superfamily Gustavioidea
Family Astegistidae
Genus Astegistes Hull, 1916
Notes
Published as part of Behan-Pelletier, Valerie M. & Lindo, Zoë, 2019, Checklist of oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) of Canada and Alaska, pp. 1-180 in Zootaxa 4666 (1) on page 73, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4666.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4000595
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- Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.4666.1.1 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/4000595 (URL)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/7A4FA266467BFF80FFC4F07AFF8BFFE6 (URL)
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- https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/8676DA1E4633FFC8FF53F287FE5DFBB6 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Megeremaeidae
- Genus
- Megeremaeus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Sarcoptiformes
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Higgins and Woolley
- Species
- montanus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Megeremaeus montanus and, 1965 sec. Behan-Pelletier & Lindo, 2019
References
- Woolley, T. A. & Higgins, H. G. (1965) A new genus and species of oribatid mite from Colorado (Acari: Oribatei, Ceratoppiidae). Great Basin Naturalist, 25, 59 - 62. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 1715
- Fagan, L. L., Didham, R. K., Winchester, N. N., Behan-Pelletier, V., Clayton, M., Lindquist, E. & Ring, R. A. (2005) An experimental assessment of biodiversity and species turnover in terrestrial vs. canopy leaf litter. Oecologia, 147 (2), 335 - 347. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 00442 - 005 - 0262 - 6
- Lindo, Z. & Winchester, N. N. (2006) A comparison of microarthropod assemblages with emphasis on oribatid mites in canopy suspended soils and forest floors associated with ancient western redcedar trees. Pedobiologia, 50, 31 - 41. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. pedobi. 2005.09.002
- Behan-Pelletier, V. M. (1990) Redefinition of Megeremaeus (Acari: Megeremaeidae) with description of new species and nymphs of M. montanus Higgins and Woolley. The Canadian Entomologist, 122, 875 - 900. https: // doi. org / 10.4039 / Ent 122875 - 9
- Hull, J. E. (1916) Terrestrial Acari of the Tyne Province, I. Oribatidae. Transactions of the Natural History Society of Northumberland, New Series, 4, 381 - 410.