Mycobates punctatus Hammer 1955

• Main Authors: Behan-Pelletier, Valerie M., Lindo, Zoë
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2019
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Arachnida; Sarcoptiformes; Punctoribatidae; Mycobates; Mycobates punctatus; Arctic; Yukon; Anchorage; Canada; Spence; Ogilvie; Chaun; Chukotka; Tundra; Alaska; Mite
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4349766; https://zenodo.org/record/4349766

Mycobates punctatus Hammer, 1955 Geographic Location : AK : Fort Richardson; Anchorage (Hammer 1955a); YT : Richardson Mtns; Ogilvie Mtns (Behan-Pelletier 1997b); BC : Manning PP; Mount Kobau; Ilgachuz Mtns; Saltery Bay PP (Behan- Pelletier 1994); Interior (Battigelli et al. 2004). Habitats : tundra, moss and lichens; moss from Western redcedar trunks; moss and bark from standing dead Douglas fir; Lodgepole pine litter; spruce litter. Distribution : Nearctic. Remarks : Mites reported as M. punctatus Hammer in Behan (1978a) and in MacLean et al. (1978) were misidentified; they represent M. conitus. : 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 149, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4666.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4000595 : {"references": ["Hammer, M. (1955 a) Alaskan oribatids. Acta Arctica, 7, 1 - 36.", "Behan-Pelletier V. M. (1997 b) Oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) of the Yukon. In: Danks, H. V. & Downes, J. A. (Eds.), Insects of the Yukon. Biological Survey of Canada (Terrestrial Arthropods), Ottawa, pp. 115 - 149.", "Battigelli, J. P., Spence, J. R., Langor, D. W. & Berch, S. M. (2004) Short-term impact of forest soil compaction and organic matter removal on soil mesofauna density and oribatid mite diversity. Canadian Journal of Forestry Research, 34, 1136 - 1149. https: // doi. org / 10.1139 / x 03 - 267", "Behan, V. M. (1978 a) Diversity, distribution and feeding habits of North American arctic soil Acari. Ph. D. Thesis, McGill University, Montreal, 428 pp.", "MacLean, S. F., Behan, V. M. & Fjellberg, A. (1978) Soil Acari and Collembola from Chaun Bay, Northern Chukotka. Arctic and Alpine Research, 10, 559 - 568. https: // doi. org / 10.2307 / 1550679"]}