Ceratoppia sphaerica (L. Koch, 1879 )

Behan-Pelletier, Valerie M. & Lindo, Zoë, 2019, Checklist of oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) of Canada and Alaska, Zootaxa 4666 (1), pp. 1-180 : 79

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Ceratoppia sphaerica (L. Koch, 1879 )
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Original name: Oppia sphaerica L. Koch, 1879 ( Hammer 1944)

Combination: Ceratoppia bipilis sphaerica (L. Koch, 1879) ; ( Hammer 1944), Eremaeus bipilis sphaerica (L. Koch, 1879) ; ( Kulczynski 1902), Notaspis bipilis sphaerica (L. Koch, 1879) ; ( Trägårdh 1904).

Geographic Location: AK: Fort Richardson; Anaktuvuk Pass ( Hammer 1955a); Kodiak Is. ( Hammer 1967); Barrow ( Hammer 1955a; Hurd & Lindquist 1958; Bohnsack 1968; Douce 1976); Cape Thompson ( Watson et al. 1966); Atqasuk; Northern, northwestern and southwestern coastal plain; Brooks Range; Fairbanks Region; Aleutian Islands; Pribilof Islands ( Behan 1978a); Seward Peninsula, near to Cape Espenberg, 66°28′22″N, 163°56′56″W, greyish tephra from Aniakchak eruption ( Blackford et al. 2014); YT: coastal plain (Behan & Hill 1978); Richardson Mtns; Eagle Plain; Ogilvie Mtns ( Behan-Pelletier 1997b); NT: Tuktoyaktuk ( Behan 1978a).

Habitats: tundra, lichen heath.

Distribution: Holarctic.

Behan-Pelletier V. M. (1997 b) Oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) of the Yukon. In: Danks, H. V. & Downes, J. A. (Eds.), Insects of the Yukon. Biological Survey of Canada (Terrestrial Arthropods), Ottawa, pp. 115 - 149.

Behan, V. M. (1978 a) Diversity, distribution and feeding habits of North American arctic soil Acari. Ph. D. Thesis, McGill University, Montreal, 428 pp.

Blackford, J. J., Payne, R. J., Heggen, M. P., de la Riva Caballero, A. & van der Plicht, J. (2014) Age and impacts of the caldera-forming Aniakchak II eruption in western Alaska. Quaternary Research, 82, 85 - 95. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. yqres. 2014.04.013

Bohnsack, K. K. (1968) Distribution and abundance of the tundra arthropods in the vicinity of Pt. Barrow (71 ° 18 ' N, 156 ° 41 ' W), Alaska. Final Report, Arctic Institute of North America, ONR- 308 and ONR- 321. 111 pp. Mimeo.

Douce, G. K. (1976) Biomass of soil mites (Acari) in Arctic coastal tundra. Oikos, 27 (2), 324 - 330. https: // doi. org / 10.2307 / 3543914

Hammer, M. (1944) Studies on the oribatids and Collemboles of Greenland. Meddelelser om GrOnland, Copenhagen, 141 (3), 1 - 210.

Hammer, M. (1955 a) Alaskan oribatids. Acta Arctica, 7, 1 - 36.

Hammer, M. (1967) Some oribatids from Kodiak Is. near Alaska. Acta Arctica, 14, 1 - 25.

Hurd, P. D. Jr. & Lindquist, E. E. (1958) Analysis of soil invertebrate samples from Barrow, Alaska. Final Report., Project ONR- 173 and ONR- 193. 23 pp.

Koch, L. (1879) Arachniden aus Sibirien und Novaja Semlja, eingesammelt von der Schwedischen Expedition im Jahre 1875. Kongl. Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlinger, Stockholm, 16 (5), 1 - 136.

Kulczynski, V. (1902) Species Oribatinarum (Oudms.) (Damaeinarum Michael) in Galicia collaectae. Bulletin International de l'Academie des Sciences et des letters de Cracovie, 2, 89 - 96.

Tragardh, I. (1904) Monographie der arktischen Acariden. Fauna arctica, 4 (1), 1 - 78.

Watson, D. G., Davis, J. J. & Hanson, W. C. (1966) Terrestrial invertebrates. In: Wilimovsky, N. J., & Wolfe, J. N. (Eds.), Environment of the Cape Thompson Region, Alaska. U. S. Atomic Energy Commission PNE- 4811, pp. 565 - 584.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Sarcoptiformes

Family

Ceratoppiidae

Genus

Ceratoppia

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Sarcoptiformes

Family

Oppiidae

Genus

Oppia