Hydrogamasellus antarcticus Tragardh 1907 ...

• Main Authors: Castilho, Raphael C., Silva, Edmilson S., De, Gilberto J., Halliday, Bruce
• Format: Text
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• Published: Zenodo 2016
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Arachnida; Mesostigmata; Ologamasidae; Hydrogamasellus; Hydrogamasellus antarcticus; Antarc*; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; antarcticus; Macquarie Island; Paulet Island
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5201150; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.5201150

337. Hydrogamasellus antarcticus (Trägårdh, 1907) Hydrogamasus antarcticus Trägårdh, 1907: 12. Gamasellus (Hydrogamasellus) antarcticus.— Hirschmann, 1966b: 7; Watson, 1967: 41; Hunter, 1970: 61. Hydrogamasus antarcticus.— Hunter, 1967a: 35; 1967b: 31. Hydrogamasellus antarcticus.— Lee, 1970: 115; Lee & Hunter, 1974: 316; Karg, 1976b: 53; 1997a: 65; Karg & Schorlemmer, 2009: 82; Santos et al., 2013: 87. Type depository. Naturhistorika Riksmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden. Type locality and habitat. Paulet Island, Antarctic Peninsula, 15 January 1902, in wet moss. Note. Specimens reported by Womersley (1937: 17) as Hydrogamasus antarcticus were later described as Parasitiphis aurora Lee, 1970: 123. We have examined a syntype female of H. antarcticus (from the Stockholm Museum), as well as specimens of this species from Macquarie Island (in ANIC). In both cases the insemination pore is located on the posterodistal face of coxa III, and opens into a short sclerotised basal section of the spermathecal duct ... : Published as part of Castilho, Raphael C., Silva, Edmilson S., De, Gilberto J. & Halliday, Bruce, 2016, Catalogue of the family Ologamasidae Ryke (Acari: Mesostigmata), pp. 1-147 in Zootaxa 4197 (1) on page 80, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.168445 ...