Paraquanothrus n. gen. from freshwater rock pools in the USA, with new diagnoses of Aquanothrus, Aquanothrinae, and Ameronothridae (Acari, Oribatida)

• Published in: Acarologia
• Main Authors: Norton, Roy A., Franklin, Elizabeth
• Other Authors: College of Environmental Science and Forestry, State University of New York (SUNY), National Institute for Amazonian Research
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2018
• Subjects: Scapheremaeus; Scutoverticidae; lithotelma; Ameronothrus; Chudalupia; Animalia; Arthropoda; Acari; oribatid mite; Colorado Plateau; granite outcrop fauna; [SDV.BID.SPT]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biodiversity/Systematics; Phylogenetics and taxonomy; [SDV.BA.ZI]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Animal biology/Invertebrate Zoology; New Rock; Mite
• Online Access: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01804791; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01804791/document; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01804791/file/Acarologia-2018-58-557-627.pdf; https://doi.org/10.24349/acarologia/20184258

International audience Many taxa of mites inhabit long-lived freshwater environments, but the few known to live in small, ephemeral rock pools (lithotelmata) are brachypyline Oribatida. One of these is in the South African genus Aquanothrus (Ameronothridae). We describe adults and juveniles of two n...