Genus Pedrocortesella Hammer, 1961

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pedrocortesella Hammer, M. 1961. Investigations on the Oribatid fauna of the Andes Mountains. II. Peru. Biologiske Skrifter Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab 13(1): 1-157 pls I-XLIII.
• Acupedicellus Hunt, G.S. & Lee, D.C. 1995. Plateremaeoid mites (Arachnida : Acarina : Cryptostigmata) from South Australian soils. pp. 225-241 in M.S. Harvey (ed.). Australasian Spiders and Their Relatives: Papers Honouring Barbara York Main. Records of the Western Australian Museum 52(Supplement).
• Labiogena Hunt, G.S. 1996. Description of predominantly arboreal plateremaeoid mites from eastern Australia (Acarina: Cryptostigmata: Plateremaeoidea). Records of the Australian Museum 48: 303-324.

Introduction

In addition to the named species listed here, unidentified species of Pedrocortesella have been reported from Australia by O'Dowd et al. (1991), Walter (1995, 1999), Osler (1997), Colloff & Halliday (1998), and by Proctor et al. (2002) (as Labiogena sp.).

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW: South Eastern Highlands (SEH) ; NSW: NSW North Coast (NNC), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB) ; Qld: Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ) ; SA: Murray Darling Depression (MDD) ; Tas: Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH) ; WA: Jarrah Forest (JF), Northern Kimberley (NK), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA)

General References

Colloff, M.J. & Halliday, R.B. 1998. Oribatid Mites: A Catalogue of the Australian Genera and Species. Melbourne : CSIRO Publications.

O'Dowd, D.J., Brew, C.R., Christophel, D.C. & Norton, R.A. 1991. Mite-plant associations from the Eocene of southern Australia. Science (Washington, D.C.) 252: 99-101

Osler, G.H.R. 1997. Factors Contributing to the Structure of Soil Mite Communities. PhD thesis, Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University. 212 pp.

Walter, D.E. 1995. Dancing on the head of a pin: mites in the rainforest canopy. pp. 49-53 in M.S. Harvey (ed.). Australasian Spiders and their Relatives: Papers Honouring Barbara York Main. Records of the Western Australian Museum 52(Supplement)

Walter, D.E. 1999. Living on leaves: adaptations of Australian rainforest mites. pp. 73–78 in Needham, G.R., Mitchell, R., Horn, D.J. & Welbourn, W.C. Acarology IX. Volume 2. Symposia. Columbus, Ohio : Ohio Biological Survey.

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