Eupelops, Ewing, 1917

Behan-Pelletier, Valerie M. & Lindo, Zoë, 2019, Checklist of oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) of Canada and Alaska, Zootaxa 4666 (1), pp. 1-180 : 107

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Eupelops View in CoL sp.

Geographic Location and Habitats: AK: Gulf of Alaska, Samovar Hills, 60°17’N, 140°37’W, from Sphagnum ( Block 1966) ; YT: modern fossils ( Matthews & Telka 1997); BC: Upper Klanawa Mainline site, near Franklin River ( Berch et al. 2001); Mt. Cain, Amabilis fir ground specialist ( Fagan et al. 2005); Vancouver Is., Walbran Valley, Western redcedar ( Lindo & Winchester 2006, Lindo & Winchester 2007); AB: ABMI Sites (2 spp.); Moose Pasture Research Site ( Walter et al. 2014); 35 km north of Fort McMurray ( McAdams et al. 2018; as sp. 2 DEW); MB: southeast, forest litter ( Oswald & Minty 1970); ON: near Chapleau ( Rousseau et al. 2018; as sp. 2 nr. hirtus ); QC: Mont Tremblant (Behan et al. 1978); Mirabel municipality south of Belle-Rivière ( Tousignant et al. 1988; Tousignant & Coderre 1992); NB: Maritime Lowlands (Behan-Pelletier 2010); NS: Cape Breton Highlands NP (Behan-Pelletier 2010; Behan-Pelletier et al. 1987); NL: between Corner Brook and Little Grand Lake, Balsam fir forests ( Dwyer et al. 1997, 1998).

Genus Peloptulus Berlese, 1908 View in CoL

References

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Berch, S., Baumbrough, B., Battigelli, J., Kroeger, P., Strub, N. & de Montigny, L. (2001) Preliminary assessment of selected soil organisms under different conifer species.. Ministry of Forests, Research Branch Laboratory, Victoria BC, Canada, Research Report, 20, 27 pp.

Berlese, A. (1908) Elenco di generi e specie nouve di acari. Redia, 5, 1 - 16.

Block, W. (1966) Some Arctic Oribatei. Acarologia, 8 (1), 161 - 162.

Dwyer, E., Larson, D. J. & Thompson, I. D. (1997) Oribatida (Acari) in Balsam fir (Abies balsamea (L. )) forests of Western Newfoundland. The Canadian Entomologist, 129 (1), 151 - 170. https: // doi. org / 10.4039 / Ent 129151 - 1

Dwyer, E., Larson, D. J. & Thompson, I. D. (1998) Oribatid mite communities of old Balsam fir (Abies balsamea (L. )) forests of Western Newfoundland, Canada. Pedobiologia, 42 (4), 331 - 347.

Fagan, L. L., Didham, R. K., Winchester, N. N., Behan-Pelletier, V., Clayton, M., Lindquist, E. & Ring, R. A. (2005) An experimental assessment of biodiversity and species turnover in terrestrial vs. canopy leaf litter. Oecologia, 147 (2), 335 - 347. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 00442 - 005 - 0262 - 6

Lindo, Z. & Winchester, N. N. (2006) A comparison of microarthropod assemblages with emphasis on oribatid mites in canopy suspended soils and forest floors associated with ancient western redcedar trees. Pedobiologia, 50, 31 - 41. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. pedobi. 2005.09.002

Matthews, J. V. Jr. & Telka, A. (1997): Insect fossils from the Yukon. In: Danks, H. V. & Downes, J. A. (Eds.), Insects of the Yukon. Biological Survey of Canada (Terrestrial Arthropods), Ottawa, pp. 911 - 962.

McAdams, B. N., Quideau, S. A., Swallow, M. J. B. & Lumley, L. M. (2018) Oribatid mite recovery along a chronosequence of afforested boreal sites following oil sand mining. Forest Ecology and Management, 422, 281 - 193. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. foreco. 2018.04.034

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Rousseau, L., Venier, L., Hazlett, P., Fleming, R., Morris, D. & Handa, I. T. (2018) Forest floor mesofauna communities respond to a gradient of biomass removal and soil disturbance in a boreal Jack pine (Pinus banksiana) stand of northeastern Ontario (Canada). Forest Ecology and Management, 407, 155 - 165. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. foreco. 2017.08.054

Tousignant, S., Coderre, D. & Popovich, S. (1988) Effet du labour-hersage sur la mesofaune du sol en plantation de feuillus. Pedobiologia, 31, 283 - 291.

Tousignant, S. & Coderre, D. (1992) Niche partitioning by soil mites in a recent hardwood plantation in southern Quebec, Canada. Pedobiologia, 36, 287 - 294.

Walter, D. E., Latonas, S., Byers, K. & Lumley, L. M. (2014) Almanac of Alberta Oribatida Part I. Ver. 2.4. Royal Alberta Museum, Edmonton, AB. 542 pp. Available from: https: // www. royalalbertamuseum. ca / research / lifeSciences / invertebrateZoology / research. cfm (accessed 20 March 2019)