Genus Pheroliodes Grandjean, 1931

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pheroliodes Grandjean, F. 1931. Le genre Licneremaeus Paoli (Acariens). Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 56: 221-250.
• Pedrocortesia Hammer, M. 1958. Investigations on the Oribatid fauna of the Andes Mountains. I. The Argentine and Bolivia. Biologiske Skrifter Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab 10(1): 1-129 pls I-XXXIV.

Introduction

In addition to the named species listed here, unidentified species of Pheroliodes have been reported from Australia by Springett (1976) (as Pedrocortesia), Osler (1997), Colloff & Halliday (1998) and Proctor et al. (2002).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW: NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB) ; NSW, SA: South Eastern Highlands (SEH) ; Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ) ; Tas: Ben Lomond (BEL)

General References

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

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

Proctor, H.C., Montgomery, K.M., Rosen, K.E. & Kitching, R.L. 2002. Are tree trunks habitats or highways? A comparison of oribatid mite assemblages from hoop-pine bark and litter. Australian Journal of Entomology 41: 294–299

Springett, J.A. 1976. The effect of planting Pinus pinaster Ait. on populations of soil microarthropods and on litter decomposition at Gnangara, Western Australia. Australian Journal of Ecology 1: 83-87

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