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Panteniphis

Taxonomic Position

Cohort Gamasina

Subcohort Dermanyssiae

    Superfamily Rhodacaroidea

Family: Digamasellidae Evans

Panteniphis Willmann (=Lindquistoseius Genis, Loots & Ryke)

Diagnostic characters:

Similar taxa.  Species of Panteniphis appear to be aberrant Rhodacaroidea referable to Digamasellidae because of their reduced leg setation and sperm induction pore on leg III.  Adults are strongly hemispherical in shape, but unlike somewhat similar Dendrolaelaspis species, lack posterior horn-like processes and have an entire dorsal shield.

Ecology & Distribution.  Deutonymphs are phoretic on carabid beetles.  Adults are free-living in soil,  Known distribution: Europe, North America, and Africa.

 

 

References

Gwiazdowicz DJ.  2000.  Description of deutonymph of Panteniphis mirandus (Acari: Rhodacaridae) from Poland.  Biologia Bratislava 55: 465-470.

Hurlbutt HW.  1975.  The systematic position of Panteniphis africanus (Acarina: Mesostigmata).  Acarologia 14: 36-42.

Kethley, J. 1983.  The deutonymph of Epiphis rarior Berlese, 1916 (Epiphidinae n. subfam., Rhodacaridae, Rhodacaroidea).  Canadian Journal of  Zoology 61: 2598-2611.

Willmann C.  1949.  Über eine Milbenausbeute aus dem Naturschutzgebiet Verlorenes Wasser bei Panten (Kr. Liegnitz).  Abh. naturw. Ver. Bremen 32: 339-358.