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Author
Castilho, Raphael C.
Author
De Moraes, Gilberto J.
Author
Halliday, Bruce
text
Zootaxa
2012
2012-09-07
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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
.