Mites of the genus Eupodes (Acari, Prostigmata) from maritime Antarctica: a biometrical and taxonomic study

• Published in: Journal of Zoology
• Main Authors: Booth, R. G., Edwards, Marion, Usher, M. B.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 1985
• Subjects: Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; South Orkney Islands; South Shetland Islands; Strandtmann; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1985.tb04939.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1469-7998.1985.tb04939.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1985.tb04939.x; https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1985.tb04939.x

A series of 40 male and 40 female mites of the prostigmatid genus Eupodes from the maritime Antarctic were each scored for 58 morphological characters, and principal co‐ordinate analyses were performed on each data set. The analyses produced three clusters of points, which were interpreted as repres...