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Gymnodamaeus ornatus Hammer 1952

Description

Gymnodamaeus cf. ornatus Hammer, 1952

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Gymnodamaeus ornatus Hammer, 1952 (Paschoal 1982a, Marshall et al. 1987, Woas 2002, Subías 2004) Allodamaeus ornatus (Hammer, 1952) (Aoki & Fujikawa 1971)

Material examined: CANADA, YUKON TERRITORY: Syntypes: Reindeer Station, 48, Canada, 1948, CNC Type 13256, RB30 (770), in CNC; 2 females, one male Dempster Highway km 141N, VB16-87, 24.vi.1987, ex birch litter; 2 females, one male Klondike Highway, ca 10 km north of intersection Alaska Highway, VB10-87, 23.vi.1987; 5 females, 2 males Richardson Mts, Summit Lake (67.43N, 136.50W), 3.vii.1987, VB95-97, ex dry south-facing slope with Hedysarum, grass, Oxytropis, all V. Behan, in CNC. CANADA: ALBERTA: 109 adults, ABMI sites 359 (57.45488358 N, - 111.054222 W), 543 (56.36729431 N, - 110.807022W), 586 (56.55817032 N, - 117.017921 W), 616 (56.43681717 N, - 117.657349 W), 618 (56.38592148 N, - 117.012878 W), 632 (55.97986221 N, - 112.605103 W), 664 (55.85299301 N, - 112.605179 W), 792 (55.02651978 N, - 112.013039 W), 793 (54.97646332 N, - 111.730118 W), 825 (54.8119545 N, - 111.665276 W), 857 (54.64096451 N, - 111.759758 W), UPL7 (54.85365 N, - 111.62854 W), all v–vi.2007; 688 (55.8536644 N, - 114.960381 W), 720 (55.68632126 N, - 114.670769 W), 866 (55.06543732 N, - 118.975967 W), 867 (55.09334183 N, - 118.651749 W), 899 (54.89818954 N, - 118.988976 W), 975 (54.32518005 N, - 115.914856 W), 1009 (54.11553574 N, - 115.737389 W), 1085 (53.48584366 N, - 113.120331 W), 1116 (53.39312744 N, - 113.735886 W), 1191 (52.65173721 N, - 110.923225 W), 1192 (52.66613007 N, - 110.693031 W), SL11 (55.54247 N, - 114.82111 W), UPL1 (55.04704 N, - 111.64944 W), all v–vi.2008; 10 adults, aspen litter on south slope, 13.iii.2008, Onoway (53.77N, 114.06W), A. Finnamore; 25 adults, Lamont Co. near Chipman (53°39'N, 112°46’W), vii–ix.2008, D.E. Walter, all in PMAE.IZ; 3 adults, Waterton Lakes National Park, 2–5.x.1980, E. Lindquist ex mixed deciduous and spruce litter; in CNC. BRITISH COLUMBIA: 5 adults, Manning Provincial Park, Spruce Bay Beach, 1220m, 13.vii.1996, V. Behan, VB78-86, Douglas fir, western hemlock litter, some Va c c i n i u m and Cornus; in CNC. ONTARIO: one female, St Lawrence Islands National Park, Grenadier Island, 8–9 July 1975, D. Spaner; in CNC; one adult, Shaw Woods Nature Reserve (46.63N), 77.07E), 30.ix.1993, VB138- 93 in PMAE.IZ. NORTH WEST TERRITORY: 2 females, 2 males Richardson Mts, Fish Creek, (67.57.5N, 136.26W), 4.vii.1987; VB108-87, V. Behan, ex Picea glauca litter with grass and Empetrum nigrum in CNC.

Notes

Published as part of Walter, David Evans, 2009, Genera of Gymnodamaeidae (Acari: Oribatida: Plateremaeoidea) of Canada, with notes on some nomenclatorial problems, pp. 23-44 in Zootaxa 2206 on page 27, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.189740

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Gymnodamaeidae
Genus
Gymnodamaeus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Sarcoptiformes
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Hammer
Species
ornatus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Gymnodamaeus ornatus Hammer, 1952 sec. Walter, 2009

References

  • Hammer, M. (1952) Investigations on the microfauna of Northern Canada. Part I: Oribatidae. Acta Arctica, 4, 1 - 108.
  • Paschoal, A. D. (1982 a) A revision of the genus Gymnodamaeus (Acari, Oribatei, Gymnodamaeidae), with descriptions of nine new species. Revista Brasileira de Entomologia, 26, 113 - 132.
  • Marshall, V. G., Reeves, R. M. & Norton, R. A. (1987) Catalogue of the Oribatida (Acari) of continental United States and Canada. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada, 139. 418 pp.
  • Subias, L. S. (2004) Listado sistematico, sinonimico y biogeografico de los acaros oribatidos (Acariformes, Oribatida) del mundo (1758 - 2002). Graellsia, 60, 3 - 305.
  • Aoki, J. & Fujikawa, T. (1971) A new species of the genus Allodamaeus Banks (Acari: Gymnodamaeidae). Annotates Zoologicae Japonenses, 44, 113 - 116.