Corticacarus (Corticacarus) patagonicus Besch 1964

• Main Author: Smit, Harry
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2002
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Arachnida; Trombidiformes; Hygrobatidae; Corticacarus; Corticacarus patagonicus; Argentina; Argentine; Chubut; Magallanes; Ushuaia; Gallegos; Besch; Antarc*; Antarctica; Tierra del Fuego
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6277221; https://zenodo.org/record/6277221

Corticacarus (Corticacarus) patagonicus Besch, 1964 Corticacarus (Corticacarus) patagonicus Besch, 1964: 146; Cekalovic 1976: 41; Cook 1980: 168, 1988: 118. Material examined Neuquén Province: 1 male (not sclerotized), 1 female, Río Chimehuín west of Junín de los Andes, 13 November 1999. Río Negro Province: 1 male, 4 females, Río Llogdconto, Nahuel Huapi National Park, 16 November 1999. Chubut Province: 4 males, 5 females, small stream with pools in river bed of Río Azul, Lago Puelo National Park, 17 November 1999; 5 males, 12 females, Río Desaguaderos at Villa Futalaufquen, Los Alerces National Park, 19 November 1999; 3 males, 6 females, Río Tecka, 30 km north of Tecka, 21 November 1999. Santa Cruz Province: 4 males, 14 females, Arroyo Calafate at El Calafate, 23 November 1999; 5 males, 10 females, 1 nymph, Río Bote at crossing with route 40, El Calafate, 25 November 1999; 3 males, unnamed creek near Estancia Josefina, east of El Calafate, 25 November 1999; 3 females, 1 nymph, Río Gallegos, at crossing with route 3 (some km's from its mouth), 2 December 1999. Tierra del Fuego Province: 10 males, 15 females, 3 nymphs, Arroyo Los Castores, Tierra del Fuego National Park, 28 November 1999; 1 male, 2 females, Río Turbio at Tolhuin, 1 December 1999; 1 female, 1 nymph, Río Olivia, east of Ushuaia, 29 November 1999. Remarks A widespread species, occurring from the Argentine Neuquén Province in the north to the Chilean Magallanes Province in the south (Cook 1980, 1988). : Published as part of Smit, Harry, 2002, Rheophilic water mites from southern Argentina, with the description of one new genus and three new species (Acari: Hydrachnidia), pp. 1-23 in Zootaxa 103 on page 15, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.156012 : {"references": ["Besch, W. (1964) Systematik und Verbreitung der sudamerikanischen rheophilen Hydrachnellen. Beitrage zur Neotropischen Fauna, 3, 77 - 194.", "Cekalovic, K. T. (1976) Catalogo de los Arachnida: Scorpiones, Pseudoscorpiones, Opiliones, Acari, Araneae y Solifugae de la XII region de Chile, Magallanes incluyendo la Antarctica chilena (Chile). Gayana (Zool.), 37, 1 - 108. [cited in: K. O. Viets 1982, 1988]", "Cook, D. R. (1980) Studies on neotropical water mites. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, 31, 1 - 645.", "Cook, D. R. (1988) Water mites from Chile. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, 42, 1 - 356."]}