Pachyseius Berlese, 1910

MAŠÁN, PETER & HALLIDAY, BRUCE, 2014, Review of the mite family Pachylaelapidae (Acari: Mesostigmata), Zootaxa 3776 (1), pp. 1-66 : 41

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3776.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:20BC10E3-3C51-4EBB-A5BD-5E214595D3A7

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5056219

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/52084A62-FF9A-FF91-FF23-6EAB9F87F83A

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Felipe

scientific name

Pachyseius Berlese, 1910
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Genus Pachyseius Berlese, 1910 View in CoL

Pachyseius Berlese, 1910a: 255 View in CoL .

Type species Pachyseius humeralis Berlese, 1910 , by original designation.

The genus Pachyseius was proposed by Berlese (1910a), but has sometimes been considered as a synonym of Neoparasitus Oudemans, 1901 in the family Neoparasitidae Oudemans, 1939 , for example by Vitzthum (1942) and Baker & Wharton (1952). Evans (1957a) placed Pachyseius as a separate genus in a very broad and heterogeneous family Neoparasitidae . Later Evans & Till (1979) placed this genus in the family Pachylaelapidae , but Karg (1971, 1993) placed Pachyseius in the family Macrochelidae rather than the Pachylaelapidae . Karg (1971) proposed a separate tribe Pachyseiini Karg, 1971 for the genus Pachyseius , primarily because of the simple form of the epistome, short dorsal setae, straight peritremes, and fused ventral and anal shields. Although most other authors have placed Pachyseius in the family Pachylaelapidae , the systematic position of the genus in the family seems to be fragile and provisional. Mašán (2007a) placed it in the subfamily Pachyseiinae , and that usage is followed here. The relationship of Pachyseius to the other genera of Pachylaelapid is unclear. On the basis of the recently described species ( Mašán & Mihál, 2007), it appears that the general evolutionary trend in Pachyseius is towards increased sclerotisation, including fusion of some ventral shield components to form a contiguous exopodalperitrematal complex, a sternal-metasternal complex, and abnormally large metapodal platelets widely abutting the parapodal platelets and ventri-anal shield.

Pachyseius View in CoL is distributed exclusively throughout the Palaearctic region, except that Pachyseius humeralis View in CoL may have been introduced into Australia by human activities ( Halliday, 2001), and unidentified species have been collected in northern Australia ( Lindquist et al., 2009) and Canada (Broadbent & Tomlin, 1979). It currently comprises 17 known species from Europe, Russia, China and Japan.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Mesostigmata

Family

Pachylaelapidae

Loc

Pachyseius Berlese, 1910

MAŠÁN, PETER & HALLIDAY, BRUCE 2014
2014
Loc

Pachyseius

Berlese, A. 1910: 255
1910
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