Taxonavigation

Familia: Tydeidae
Subfamilia: Tydeinae
Genus: Melanotydaeus
Species (6): L.  (Melanotydaeus) brevistylus – L.  (Melanotydaeus) humeralis – L.  (Melanotydaeus) mammilaris – L.  (Melanotydaeus) raphignathoides – L.  (Melanotydaeus) simplex – L.  (Melanotydaeus) styliger

Name

Melanotydaeus Berlese, 1910

Note:

• Melanotydaeus was first described as a subgenus of Lasiotydaeus (Berlese, 1910: 211).
• It was raised to full generic level by Thor (1933: 48) and divided into two subgenera, Melanotydaeus (with humeralis and simplex) and Stylotydeus (with styliger and brevistylus).
• It was synonymized with Tydeus by Baker & Wharton (1952: 191) who misspelled the genus name (Melanotydeus instead of Melanotydaeus). The synonymization was rejected by Baker (1965: 101).

Reference

• Baker, E.W. 1965. A review of the genera of the family Tydeidae (Acarina). In: Naegele, J.A. (ed.). Advances in acarology (2). Ithaca (NY): Cornell University Press: 96–133.
• Baker, E.W. 1968. The genus Paralorryia. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 61: 1097–1106. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aesa/61.5.1097

• Baker, E.W. & Wharton, G.W. 1952. An introduction to acarology. Macmillan, New York. Reference page. 
• Berlese, A. 1908. Elenco di generi e specie nuove di Acari. Redia 5(1): 1–15.
• Berlese, A. 1910. Acari nuovi. Redia 6(2): 199–234 (+ tables XVIII-XXI).
• Kaźmierski, A. 1989b. Morphological studies on Tydeidae (Actinedida, Acari) I. Remarks about the segmentation, chaetotaxy and poroidotaxy of idiosoma. Acta zoologica cracoviensia 32: 69–83.

• Kaźmierski, A. 1998. Tydeinae of the world: generic relationships, new and redescribed taxa and keys to all species. A revision of the subfamilies Pretydeinae and Tydeinae (Acari: Actinedida: Tydeidae) – part IV. Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia 41(2): 283–455. Reference page. 
• Silva, G.L. da, Metzelthin, M.H., Silva, O.S. da & Ferla, N.J. 2016. Catalogue of the mite family Tydeidae (Acari: Prostigmata) with the world key to the species. Zootaxa 4135(1): 1–68. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4135.1.1 . Reference page. 
• Thor, S. 1933. Tydeidae, Ereynetidae. Das Tierreich 60: 1–84.