Taxonavigation

Familia: Tydeidae
Subfamilia: Tydeinae
Genus: Tydeus
Species: Tydeus zempoalensis

Name

Tydeus zempoalensis Baker, 1943

• Type locality: moss in the lagoons of Zempoala, Morelos (Mexico).
• Holotype: -

(Short) history

The species was synonymized with Tydeus kochi by Baker (1970: 170). However, the specimens identified as kochi by Baker (1970: 170–171) surely belong to another species than that described by Oudemans (1928) as they do not have clavate setae (André, 2005: 981).

Comments

Species not listed by Silva et al. (2016)

References

• André, H.M. 2005. In search of the true Tydeus (Acari: Tydeidae). Journal of Natural History 39: 975–1001. Reference page. 
• Baker, E.W. 1943. Nuevos Tydeidae Mexicanos (Acarina). Revista de la Sociedad Mexicana de Historia Natural, 4: 181–190.

• Baker, E.W. 1947. Notes on mites of the family Tydeidae (Acarina) with descriptions of two new species. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 49: 133–136. Reference page. 
• Baker, E.W. 1970. The genus Tydeus: subgenera and species group with descriptions of new species (Acarina: Tydeidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 63: 163–177. 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.