Gamasellus silvestris Halaskova 1958

• Main Authors: Castilho, Raphael C., Silva, Edmilson S., De, Gilberto J., Halliday, Bruce
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
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• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Arachnida; Mesostigmata; Ologamasidae; Gamasellus; Gamasellus silvestris; Halliday; Davydova; nenets; Nenets Autonomous Okrug; Yamalo Nenets; Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug; Siberia
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5200822; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5200822

170. Gamasellus silvestris Halašková, 1958 Gamasellus silvestris Halašková, 1958: 347. Gamasellus (Eurysellus) silvestris.— Davydova, 1982: 36. Gamasellus alifanovi Davydova, 1970: 82. Synonymy by Davydova (1982). Type depository. G. silvestris: Author's private collection; G. alifanovi: Siberian Zoological Museum, Novosibirsk, Russia. Type locality and habitat. G. silvestris: Herlíkovice, Vrchlabí, Czech Republic, 27 February 1955, in soil of spruce forest; G. alifanovi: Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, [Siberia], Russia, 14 August 1965, in lichens. Note. Hirschmann (1962) considered that G. silvestris was a synonym of Cyrtolaelaps montanus Willmann, 1936, but Davydova (1982) reversed that decision. Bregetova & Shcherbak (1977) considered that G. silvestris and Gamasellus alifanovi Davydova, 1970 were both synonyms of C. montanus. Davydova (1982) later reinstated G. silvestris as a valid species, with G. alifanovi as its junior synonym. 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 pages 53-54, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.168445