Epicriopsis

Epicriopsis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Ascoidea 

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Amorphea
Cladus: Obazoa
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Cladus: Filozoa
Cladus: Choanozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: ParaHoxozoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Superphylum: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Classis: Arachnida
Subclassis: Acari
Superordo: Parasitiformes
Ordo: Mesostigmata
Subordo: Monogynaspida
Infraordo: Gamasina
Hypordo: Dermanyssiae
Superfamilia: Ascoidea

Familia: Ameroseiidae
Genus: Epicriopsis
Species: E. atuberculata – E. horrida – E. hungarica – E. jilinensis – E. linzhiensis – E. mirabilis – E. palustris – E. stellata – E. suedus – E. walteri

(For Epicriopsis baloghi and Epicriopsis langei see Epicriopsis palustris per Mašán, 2017. For Epicriopsis rivus see Epicriopsis mirabilis per Mašán, 2017. For Epicriopsis berlesei see Epicriopsis horridus per Karg 1971a,b.).

Name

Epicriopsis Berlese, 1916

Type species: Gamasus horridus Kramer, 1876, by original designation.

Gender: feminine (To verify. The genus is inflected masculine in several works, e.g. Mašán, 2017, but the type species Epicriopsis horrida (Kramer, 1876) was originally inflected as feminine, from the latinizion opsis, derived from feminine Greek ὄψῐς).

Synonymy

  • Epicriopsis Berlese, 1916: 34, 48. (Protonym) (See Mašán, 2017)

References

Primary references

  • Berlese, A. 1916. Centuria prima di Acari nuovi. Redia 12: 19–67. BHL Reference page. 
  • Karg, W. 1971. Acari (Acarina), Milben, Unterordnung Anactinochaeta (Parasitiformes). Die freilebenden Gamasina (Gamasides), Raubmilben. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands 59: 1–475.
  • Karg, W. 1971. Zur Kenntnis der Gattungen Cheiroseius Berlese und Epicriopsis Berlese (Acarina, Parasitiformes). Abhandlungen und Berichte des Naturkundemuseums Görlitz 46(6): 1–8. PDF
  • Ma, L.M. & Lin, J.Z. 2016. A new species of the genus Epicriopsis and a new record of the genus Ameroseius from China (Acari:Mesostigmata:Ameroseiidae). Acta Arachnologica Sinica 25(1): 14–16. Reference page. 
  • Narita, J.P.Z. & de Moraes, G.J. 2016. A new species of Epicriopsis Berlese (Acari: Mesostigmata: Ameroseiidae) from Brazil, with a key to the world species of the genus. Zootaxa 4114(4): 477–484. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4114.4.7. Reference page. 
  • Mašán, P. 2017. A revision of the family Ameroseiidae (Acari, Mesostigmata), with some data on Slovak fauna. ZooKeys 704: 1–228. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.704.13304. Reference page. 

Additional references

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