Species Rutacarus sasonus Cook, 1986

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• Rutacarus sasonus Cook, D.R. 1986. Water mites from Australia. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 40: 1-568 [24-25].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV ♀, Scammander River near Upper Scammander, Tasmania.
  Paratype(s) NMV ♂ (same data as holotype); FMNH 3 ♀, 3 ♂ (same data as holotype).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Tas, Vic: Flinders (FLI)

General References

Boulton, A., Harvey, M. & Proctor, H. 2004. Of spates and species: responses by interstitial water mites to simulated spates in a subtropical Australian river. Experimental and Applied Acarology 34: 149–169 (as Rutacarus sasonus)

Boulton, A.J. & Harvey, M.S. 2003. Effects of a simulated spate on water mites in the hyporheic zone of an Australian subtropical river. pp. 57–73 in Smith, I.M. An Acarological Tribute to David R. Cook (From Yankee Springs to Wheeny Creek). West Bloomfield, Michigan : Indira Publishing House. (as Rutacarus sasonus)

Harvey, M.S. 1990. A review of the water mite family Anisitsiellidae in Australia (Acarina). Invertebrate Taxonomy 3: 629-646 (as Rutacarus sasonus)

Harvey, M.S. 1998. The Australian Water Mites. A Guide to the Families and Genera. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 150 pp. (as Rutacarus sasonus)

Valdecasas, A.G. 2008. Revision of the genus Rutacarus (Acari, Parasitengona, Hydrachnidia) with the description of a new species from Central America. Zootaxa 1693: 62–68 (as Rutacarus sasonus)

Viets, K.O. 1987. Die Milben des Süsswassers (Hydrachnellae und Halacaridae (Part.), Acari). 2. Katalog. Berlin : Paul Parey 1012 pp. (as Rutacarus sasonus)

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