Taxonavigation

Familia: Tydeidae
Subfamilia: Tydeinae
Genus: Paralorryia
Species: Paralorryia leptonychotes

Name

Paralorryia leptonychotes (Womersley, 1937)

• Type locality: taken from the intestine of a Weddell Seal, Leptonychotes weddelli, Commonwealth Bay, King George V Land (Antarctica)

Comments

• Description based on a single specimen. The chaetotaxy is not given in the description.
• Species not listed by Silva et al. (2016).

References

• Baker, E.W. 1968a. The genus Lorryia. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 61: 986–1008. DOI: 10.1093/aesa/61.4.986
• Baker, E.W. 1968b. The genus Paralorryia. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 61: 1097–1106. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aesa/61.5.1097
• 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. 

• Womersley, H. 1937: Acarina. Scientific reports of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 (C) 10(6): 1-24. PDF Reference page.  [first availability, see p. 8, and Text figs. 1a-c]