Rhodacarus calcarulatus Berlese, 1920, 1961

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127. Rhodacarus calcarulatus Berlese, 1920

Rhodacarus calcarulatus Berlese, 1920: 164 .

Rhodacarus pallidus f. calcarulatus .— Sheals, 1958: 299.

Rhodacarus calcarulatus .— Lee, 1970: 29; Bregetova & Shcherbak, 1977b: 269; Castagnoli & Pegazzano, 1985: 57; Karg, 1993: 335; Kalúz, 1994: 675.

Rhodacarus (Rhodacarus) calcarulatus .— Shcherbak, 1980: 67.

Rhodacarus elbius Karg, 1971: 322 (synonymy by Bregetova & Shcherbak, 1977b: 269).

TYPE DEPOSITORY of R. calcarulatus: Istituto Sperimentale per la Zoologia Agraria, Florence, Italy ; of R. elbius: Institut für Pflanzenschutzforschung – Biologische Zentralanstalt der Deutschen Akademie der Landwirtschaftswissenschaften zu Berlin, Kleinmachnow, Germany .

TYPE LOCALITY AND HABITAT of R. calcarulatus : Italy, Portici, Napoli, in moss; of R. elbius : Germany, margin of Elbe River, Vockerode, [Wittenberg], 1967, in humus.

NOTE 1: Sheals (1958) considered R. calcarulatus to be a junior synonym of Rhodacarus pallidus Hull , naming it Rhodacarus pallidus f. calcarulatus . In the same publication, he mentioned that T. pallidus had a Vshaped groove posterior to setae j 4, z 3 and s 2, and that R. pallidus f. calcarulatus did not have it. Thus, we understand that those species should not be considered synonyms.

NOTE 2: Rhodacarus calcarulatus Berlese sensu Athias-Henriot (1961) and Karg (1971) were misidentifications of R. reconditus Athias-Henriot, 1961 (see below). The two species may be distinguished by the V-shaped groove in the podonotal shield - absent in R. calcarulatus , present in R. reconditus .