Cyta von Heyden

Hernandes, Fabio A., Skvarla, Michael J., Fisher, Ray, Dowling, Ashley P. G., Ochoa, Ronald, Ueckermann, Edward A. & Bauchan, Gary R., 2016, Catalogue of snout mites (Acariformes: Bdellidae) of the world, Zootaxa 4152 (1), pp. 1-83 : 19-22

Cyta von Heyden

Cyta von Heyden, 1826: 608 ; Thor, 1930a: 89; 1931a: 16; Oudemans, 1937: 1232; Meyer & Ryke, 1959: 377; Atyeo, 1960a: 416; 1963a: 121, 177; Soliman & Zaher 1975: 74; Den Heyer, 1981: 32; Michocka, 1987: 72.

Amonia Koch, 1836: 7 ; type species Amonia cruciata Koch, 1836: 7 ; Berlese, 1893: 43.

Ammonia, Koch, 1842: 75 .

Cytobdella Mihelčič, 1958a: 271; type species Bdella (Cytobdella) cytoides Mihelčič, 1958a by original designation; synonymy according to Atyeo (1963a: 121).

Troglobdella Oudemans, 1937: 1228 ; type species Troglobdella obisium ( Gervais, 1841) , Scirus obisium Gervais, 1841 by original designation; synonymy according to Atyeo (1960a: 417).

Rigibdella Tseng, 1978 ; type-species Rigibdella ignea Tseng, 1978: 48 by original designation; new synonym.

Type-species: Scirus latirostris Hermann, 1804 by original designation.

65. Cyta americana ( Banks, 1902b) : 171; Washington D.C., USA. Original designation: Ammonia americana Banks. — Cyta americana ; Banks, 1907: 596; 1915: 25; Hernandes et al., 2011: 808.

Remarks. Although Thor (1931a) treated this species as a synonym of C. latirostris , they have different chaetotaxy on the palpfemur (6–7 in the latter species and 4 in C. americana ) ( Hernandes 2013); also, the proximal setae of the chelicerae is approximately three times the length of the distal setae (2x in C. latirostris ). Type deposition. MCZ.

66. Cyta brevipalpa Ewing, 1909b: 73 ; Ewing & Webster, 1912: 129; under bark on soft maple tree, Illinois, USA. Type deposition. USNM.

67. Cyta coerulipes ( Dugès, 1834) : 21; Europe, unknown locality.— Thor, 1931a: 20; Willmann, 1939c: 431; 1956: 241; 227; Den Heyer, 1981: 32 (ssp.— quadrisetosus). Original designation: Bdella coerulipes Dugès. — Walckenaer & Gervais, 1844: 156.

a. Amonia chlorophana Koch, 1836: 8 ; Amonia chloropus, Koch, 1842: 76 ; Bdella chloropus (Koch) , Berlese, 1883: 214; synonymy according to Berlese (1891, 1893).

b. Amonia leucocephala Koch, 1839: 1 ; Walckenaer & Gervais, 1847: 531; Oudemans, 1937: 1238; synonymy according to Thor (1931a: 20).

c. Bdella crassirostris Kramer, 1881: 442 ; synonymy according to Thor (1931a).

d. Ammonia coerulipes ; Berlese, 1893: 44.

e. Cyta lutea George, 1912: 236 ; synonymy according to Thor (1931a).

f. Bdella robustirostris Ewing, 1913: 112 ; synonymy according to Thor (1931a).

g. Cyta coeruleipes ; Hull, 1918: 37.

Distribution. Morocco ( Thor 1931b), Austria ( Willmann 1951), Spain ( Mihelčič 1958b), Panama, Haiti, Cuba, Mexico (San Luis Potosí, Guerrero, Tamaulipas, Hidalgo), United States (California, Colorado, Texas), Alaska (Umiat) and Sudan Bor ( Atyeo 1960a), Georgia ( Gomelauri 1963b), Switzerland ( Schweizer & Bader 1963), Bulgaria ( Sosnina et al. 1965), Egypt (Soliman 1975), Syria ( Lattakia ) ( Soliman & Zaher 1975), Ukraine ( Kuznetsov & Livshits 1979a), Afrotropical (Natal) ( Den Heyer 1981), Poland ( Michocka 1987), Brazil ( Hernandes et al. 2011), Iran (Beyzavi et al. 2011).

Redescriptions. Atyeo (1960a), Michocka (1987).

Remarks. There is confusion between the names Amonia chlorophana Koch and A. chloropus Koch—both names are present in Koch (1836) in the contents page and in text, respectively. Type deposition. Unknown.

68. Cyta cytoides ( Mihelčič, 1958a) : 271 comb. nov.; in a damp cave in brown clay, Guadarrama Mountains, Cercedilla, Spain. Original designation: Bdella (Cytobdella) cytoides Mihelčič.

Remarks. Mihelčič (1958a) illustrates a massive and stout chelicera for this species, a key diagnostic feature for the genus Cyta ; therefore this species is herein transferred to the latter genus.

Type deposition. Laboratorium Faunistica y Ecología Animal, Instituto de Edafología, Madrid.

69. Cyta grandjeani Gomelauri, 1963a: 169 ; Tbilisi, Georgia, ex soil, lichens, grass, oak and juniper tree. Kuznetsov & Livshits (1979a: 56).

Remarks. Cyta veneta grandjeani Lombardini, 1964: 106 is a junior homonym; although the date printed in Lombardini is 1962, the issue appeared only in 1964.

Type deposition. Unknown.

70. Cyta flava Mihelčič, 1958a: 270 ; between Ciempozuelos and Chinchón, Spain, on soil.

Type deposition. Laboratorium Faunistica y Ecología Animal, Instituto de Edafología, Madrid.

71. Cyta ignea ( Tseng, 1978) : 48 comb. nov.; Taipu, Chiayi Hsien, Taiwan, on litter. Original designation: Rigibdella ignea Tseng.

Remarks. The rationale for moving this species to Cyta was given in the discussion before the taxonomic section.

Type deposition. Supposedly at BSMI, but probably lost (C-C Ho, pers. comm.).

72. Cyta kauaiensis Swift & Goff, 1987: 38 ; Kauai I, Hawaii, ex litter in Metrosideros sp. ( Myrtaceae ) tree hole. Remarks. Female unknown.

Type deposition. BPBM.

73. Cyta latirostris ( Hermann, 1804) : 62; France, ex moss. Original designation: Scirus latirostris Hermann. — Oudemans, 1929: 314. Cyta latirostris, Thor, 1902: 160 ; Oudemans, 1902: 54; Thor, 1904b: 72; Bäbler, 1910: 812. Other names: Leptus latirostris, Lamarck, 1838: 63 ; Ammonia latirostris, Koch, 1839: 3 ; Koch, 1842: 76; Walckenaer & Gervais, 1847: 531; Berlese, 1891: 4; Bdella latirostris, Walckenaer & Gervais, 1844: 157 ; 1847: 531; Canestrini & Fanzago, 1877: 107; Berlese, 1883: 214.

a. Ammonia cruciata Koch, 1836: 7 ; Andersén, 1863: 185; Berlese, 1893: 44; Oudemans, 1937: 1235; Bdella cruciata ; Walckenaer & Gervais, 1844: 156 synonymy according to Berlese (1893).

b. Ammonia leucocephala Koch, 1839: 23 ; 1842: 76; Bdella leucocephala (Koch) , Canestrini & Fanzago, 1877: 106; synonymy according to Berlese (1893).

c. Ammonia megacephala Koch, 1839: 23 ; 1842: 76; Walckenaer & Gervais, 1847: 531; Berlese, 1893: 44; Oudemans, 1937: 1239; synonymy according to Berlese (1893).

d. Bdella phoenicea Koch, 1839: 7 ; 1842: 74; Walckenaer & Gervais, 1847: 531; Canestrini & Fanzago, 1877: 103; Thor, 1931a: 36; Oudemans, 1937: 1213; synonym of Bdella vulgaris according to Berlese (1893).

f. Bdella cruentata Koch, 1839: 10 ; 1842: 74; Walckenaer & Gervais, 1847: 532; Andersèn, 1863: 185; Canestrini & Fanzago, 1877: 102; Thor, 1931a: 37; Oudemans, 1937: 1192; synonym of Bdella vulgaris according to Berlese (1893).

g. Bdella crassirostris Kramer, 1881: 442 ; synonymy according to Berlese (1891, 1893).

h. Bdella dispar Koch, 1839: 23 ; 1842: 75; Walckenaer & Gervais, 1847: 532; Canestrini & Fanzago, 1877: 101; Thor, 1931a: 31; Oudemans, 1937: 1194; Willmann, 1951a: 148; 1952: 166; Michocka, 1987: 24; synonymy according to Thor (1931a).

h. Bdella amarantina Koch, 1839: 17 ; 1842: 75; Walckenaer & Gervais, 1847: 532; Andersén, 1863: 185; Berlese, 1893: 42; Oudemans, 1937: 1191; synonymy according to Thor (1931a: 31).

i. Bdella tenuirostris Koch, 1839: 18 ; 1842: 74; Walckenaer & Gervais, 1847: 532; synonym of Bdella vulgaris according to Berlese (1893).

j. Bdella vivida Koch, 1839: 19 ; 1842: 75; Walckenaer & Gervais, 1847: 532; Berlese, 1893: 43; Thor, 1931a: 37; Oudemans, 1937: 1216; synonym of Bdella vulgaris according to Berlese (1893).

k. Bdella vulgaris ( Hermann 1804: 61) , Koch, 1839: 8; 1842: 74; Walckenaer & Gervais, 1847: 531; Berlese, 1888: 187; Hull, 1918: 38.

l. Bdella robustirostris Ewing, 1913: 112 ; synonymy according to Thor (1931a).

m. Cyta novangliae Jacot, 1939: 326 ; synonymy according to Atyeo (1960a).

n. Cyta phaseoli Meyer & Ryke, 1959: 377 ; Den Heyer, 1981: 32; synonymy according to Wallace & Mahon (1972: 571).

o. Amonia latirostris var. fusca Canestrini, 1896: 92 ; Cyta latirostris var. fusca Thor, 1931a: 19 .

p. Bdella brevirostris molissima Koch, 1879: 132 , Cyta brevirostris ; Hull, 1922: 622; Banks, 1923: 237; Ammonia brevirostris ; Trägårdh, 1900: 15; 1902a: 8; Cyta latirostris var. brevirostris ; Trägårdh, 1904: 49; 1910: 480; 1928: 7; synonymy according to Thor (1904b).

q. Bdella arenaria Kramer, 1881: 444 ; Berlese 1893: 42; Karpelles, 1894: 425; synonymy of Bdella vulgaris according to Berlese (1893).

Distribution. Paraguay, Brazil ( Berlese 1888), Italy ( Canestrini 1886), Sweden ( Trägårdh 1910), Germany ( Voigts & Oudemans 1906; Willmann 1952), Ireland ( Halbert 1915), England ( Hull 1918), Switzerland ( Schweizer 1922), Canada ( Summerhayes & Elton 1928), Germany, Norway ( Thor 1930a, 1931a), Northern Africa ( Thor 1931b), Australia ( Womersley 1933a), Madeira Island ( Willman 1939a), Austria ( Willmann 1951), Germany (Wangerooge Island) ( Willmann 1952), Germany ( Willmann 1956), France ( Schmölzer 1956), United States (Maryland) ( Drummond 1957), Spain ( Mihelčič 1958a), Georgia ( Gomelauri 1961), South Africa ( Meyer & Ryke 1959; Halliday 2005), Cuba, Jamaica, Mexico (Puebla, México, San Luis Potosí), United States (California, Utah, Idaho, Texas, Arkansas, Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, Michigan, Alabama, Tennessee, West Virginia, Maryland, Connecticut), Alaska (Point Barrow), Iceland, Italy, Germany and Australia ( Atyeo 1960a), Iceland ( Atyeo & Tuxen 1962), Switzerland ( Schweizer & Bader 1963), Bulgaria ( Sosnina et al. 1965), Japan ( Shiba & Morikawa 1966; Shiba 1969a; Nakamura et al. 2006), New Zealand, Australia (Victoria, Tasmania, Western Australia) ( Atyeo 1963a; Wallace & Mahon 1972), Egypt (Soliman 1975; Zaher 1986), Syria ( Lattakia ) ( Soliman & Zaher 1975), Bohemia ( Lelláková-Duškova 1978), Ukraine ( Kuznetsov & Livshits 1979a), Afrotropical (Natal, Cape Province, Pietersburg Dist.) ( Den Heyer 1981), United States ( Lehman 1982), Hawaii ( Swift & Goff 1987), Poland ( Michocka 1987), Korea ( Lee et al. 1997), China (Fujian) ( Lin & Zhang 2000), South Africa ( Halliday 2005), Hungary ( Ripka et al. 2005), Iran ( Ostovan & Kamali 1995; Kamali et al. 2001; Ueckermann et al. 2007; Abbaszadeh et al. 2010), Crimea ( Bednarskaya 2009, 2010, 2011), Slovakia ( Kaluz 2008).

Redescriptions. Atyeo (1960a, 1963a), Atyeo & Tuxen (1962), Sosnina et al. (1965), Shiba (1969a), Lelláková-Duškova (1978), Michocka (1987). Although Berlese (1893: 44) has considered Ammonia leucocephala Koch as a synonym of Cyta latirostris, Koch (1839) illustrated three leg trichobothria (on tibia I, tibia IV and tarsus III), while C. latirostris only has a trichobothrium on tibia IV.

Type deposition. Unknown (probably lost).

Remarks. Species with world-wide distribution; this species bears trichobothria only on tibia IV; Wallace & Mahon (1972: 579) reports an undescribed species of Cyta with no leg trichobothria at all.

74. Cyta leiliae Eghbalian, Khanjani & Ueckermann, 2014: 568 ; ex soil and litter under Quercus brantii Lindl (Fagaceae) , Kurdistan province, Iran.

Type deposition. Holotype and paratypes at the Acarology Laboratory , University of Abu-Ali Sina, Hamedan, Iran, one paratype at NCA .

75. Cyta kurdistanicus Eghbalian, Khanjani & Ueckermann, 2014: 572 ; ex soil and litter under Amygdalus lycioides Spach (Rosaceae) , Kurdistan province, Iran.

Type deposition. Holotype and paratypes at the Acarology Laboratory , University of Abu-Ali Sina, Hamedan, Iran, one paratype at NCA .

76. Cyta longiseta Wallace & Mahon, 1972: 575 ; Mt. Claremont, Perth, Australia, on Banksia sp. ( Proteaceae ) scrub. Distribution. Iran (Abbaszadeh et al. 2010).

Type deposition. Holotype and paratypes at ANIC, paratypes at SAM, BMNH, BPBM, OSAL and USNM .

77. Cyta magdalenae Den Heyer, 1981: 34 ; Kleinmond, Cape Province, South Africa, in soil under dune vegetation.

Type deposition. NCA, IZRPU, ZUNIN.

78. Cyta murrayi Den Heyer, 1981: 37 ; ex litter of Dombeya rotundifolia (Hochst.) (Malvaceae) , UNIN, South Africa.

Distribution. Afrotropical ( Angola, South Africa, Zimbabwe) ( Den Heyer 1981). Type deposition. NCA, ZUNIN, ANIC.

79. Cyta reticulata Soliman & Zaher, 1975: 74 ; Slinfa, Lattakia , Syria, ex moss. Remarks. Male unknown.

Type deposition. CUE.

80. Cyta spuria Atyeo, 1960a: 421 ; 10 miles east of Xilitla, San Luis Potosí, Mexico, ex bamboo; Distribution. Mexico, USA (Texas) ( Atyeo 1960a).

Type deposition. Holotype and paratypes at SEMC, paratypes at USNM, BMNH and SAM .

81. Cyta troglodyta Hernandes, 2011: 801 ; ex feces of Kerodon rupestris Wied (Mammalia, Rodentia ), Gruta do Janelão cave, Minas Gerais, Brazil ( Hernandes et al. 2011).

Type deposition. DZSJRP.

82. Cyta veneta ( Lombardini, 1960) : 241; Jesolo, Venice, Italy. Original designation: Neomolgus venetus Lombardini. Cyta veneta ; Lombardini, 1964: 105.

Type deposition. CRA.