Species Procorticacarus longipalpis (Cook, 1986)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Corticacarus longipalpis Cook, D.R. 1986. Water mites from Australia. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 40: 1-568 [149-150].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV ♂, Bridge Creek on Hogan Rd, approx. 14 km southwest of St. Helens, Tasmania.
  Paratype(s) NMV ♀ (same data as holotype); FMNH 5 ♂ 3♀ (same data as holotype).

Distribution

States

Tasmania

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Tas: Ben Lomond (BEL)

General References

Smit, H. 2001. New records of the water mite family Hygrobatidae from Australia, with description of ten new species (Acari: Hydrachnidia). Records of the Western Australian Museum 20: 137–158 (as Procorticacarus longipalpis)

Smit, H. 2015. The water mite genus Procorticacarus K.O. Viets in Australasia (Acari: Hydrachnidia: Hygrobatidae). Zootaxa 3956: 56-78 (as Procorticacarus longipalpis)

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

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