Banksinoma

Banksinoma spinifera, photographed by Monica Young.

Belongs within: Circumdehiscentiae.

Banksinoma is a genus of oribatid mites found in Eurasia and the Americas, characterised by strongly convergent costulae on the prodorsum. The most widespread species, B. lanceolata, is found over the greater part of the Holarctic region as well as in Hawaii. Banksinoma setosa is found in northeastern Asia (Siberia) and in Canada. Banksinoma spinifera is found from eastern Canada to Argentina (Subías 2004).

Characters (from Balogh & Balogh 1992): Prodorsum with strongly convergent costulae, shorter than half length of prodorsum, almost meeting apically or with some minute tubercles or spines between apices. Apodemata III absent. Genital plates large, near each other, with six pairs of setae.

<==Banksinoma Oudemans 1930 [incl. Thyrisoma Grandjean 1953; Banksinomidae] S04
    |--B. lanceolata (Michael 1885) S04 [=Notaspis lanceolata S04, Thyrisoma lanceolata WBB91]
    |    |--B. l. lanceolata (see below for synonymy) S04
    |    |--B. l. bifurcata (Jacot 1938) [=Oribella bifurcata] S04
    |    |--B. l. canadensis Fujikawa 1979 S04
    |    |--B. l. lunare (Hull 1914) [=Dameosoma lanceolatum lunare] S04
    |    `--B. l. oudemansi Fujikawa 1979 (see below for synonymy) S04
    |--B. akhtyamovi Rjabinin 1993 S04
    |--B. arcuatum (Hammer 1958) [=Oribella arcuata] S04
    |--B. borealis (Willmann 1943) [=Oribella borealis] S04
    |--B. castanea (Hermann 1804) S04 [=Notaspis castanea S04, Oribella castanea S62]
    |--B. cincta Zhao & Wen 1993 S04
    |--B. exobothridialis Bayartogtokh 1997 S04
    |--B. insignis Balogh & Mahunka 1965 S04
    |--B. japonica Fujikawa 1979 S04
    |--B. longisetosa Bayartogtokh & Aoki 1998 S04
    |--B. monoceros (Balogh & Mahunka 1968) [=Oribella spinifera monoceros] S04
    |--B. ovata (Wallwork 1962) [=Thyrisoma ovatum] S04
    |--B. pretiosa Tseng 1982 S04
    |--B. setosa Rjabinin 1974 S04
    |--B. sinica Wen 1990 S04
    |--B. spinifera (Hammer 1952) [=Oribella spinifera] S04
    |    |--B. s. spinifera S04
    |    `--B. s. fissurata (Hammer 1952) [=Oribella spinifera fissurata] S04
    `--B. watanabei Aoki 2002 S04

Banksinoma lanceolata lanceolata (Michael 1885) [incl. Zetes dorsatus Koch 1841 (n. d.), Z. flavipes Koch 1841 (n. d.), Banksinoma lanceolata islandica Fujikawa 1979] S04

Banksinoma lanceolata oudemansi Fujikawa 1979 [incl. Notaspis lanceolata Oudemans 1930 non Michael 1885, *B. lanceolata] S04

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

Balogh, J., & P. Balogh. 1992. The Oribatid Mites Genera of the World vol. 1. Hungarian Natural History Museum: Budapest.

[S62] Seyd, E. L. 1962. The moss mites of Kinder Scout, Derbyshire (Acari: Oribatei). Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 44 (300): 585–591.

[S04] Subías, L. S. 2004. Listado sistemático, sinonímico y biogeográfico de los ácaros oribátidos (Acariformes, Oribatida) del mundo (1758–2002). Graellsia 60 (número extraordinario): 3–305.

[WBB91] Wauthy, G., V. Bauchau & T. Backeljau. 1991. What are vertitions?. In: Dusbábek, F., & V. Bukva (eds) Modern Acarology: Proceedings of the VIII International Congress of Acarology, held in České Budĕjovice, Czechoslovakia, 6–11 August 1990 vol. 2 pp. 311–318. SPB Academic Publishing: The Hague.