Atractides

Male Atractides (Atractides) nodipalpis, copyright Holger Müller.

Belongs within: Hygrobatidae.

Atractides is a genus of water mites found mostly in the Northern Hemisphere, with smaller numbers of species in Africa and South America (Walter et al. 2009).

<==Atractides Koch 1837 S86
    |--A. (Atractides) S86
    |    |--A. (A.) acutirostris S86
    |    |    |--A. a. acutirostris S86
    |    |    `--A. a. gibberimarginatus Viets 1955 S86
    |    |--A. (A.) asticae Petrova 1968 S86
    |    |--A. (A.) brasiliensis (Lundblad 1937) RFF05
    |    |--A. (A.) cagiallensis van Rendsburg 1971 S86
    |    |--A. (A.) cerberus Schwoerbel 1961 S86
    |    |--A. (A.) cisternarum (Viets 1935) S86
    |    |--A. (A.) denticulatus (Walter 1947) S86
    |    |--A. (A.) elegans (Motas & Tanasachi 1948) S86
    |    |--A. (A.) firmus (Walter 1947) S86
    |    |--A. (A.) gracilipes (Angelier 1951) S86
    |    |--A. (A.) hyogoensis Imamura 1957 S86
    |    |--A. (A.) hyporheicus Schwoerbel 1961 S86
    |    |--A. (A.) kotoensis Imamura 1983 S86
    |    |--A. (A.) latipalpis (Motas & Tanasachi 1946) S86
    |    |--A. (A.) latipes (Szalay 1935) S86
    |    |--A. (A.) longiporus Petrova 1967 S86
    |    |--A. (A.) longus (Walter 1947) S86
    |    |--A. (A.) losoensis van Rendsburg 1971 S86
    |    |--A. (A.) magnipalpis van Rendsburg 1971 S86
    |    |--A. (A.) magnirostris (Motas & Tanasachi 1948) S86
    |    |--A. (A.) microcavaticus Schwoerbel 1961 S86
    |    |--A. (A.) microphthalmus (Motas & Tanasachi 1948) S86
    |    |--A. (A.) miurai Imamura 1956 S86
    |    |--A. (A.) nitraensis Laska 1959 S86
    |    |--A. (A.) nodipalpis (Thor 1899) S86, GS91
    |    |    |--A. n. nodipalpis S86
    |    |    |--A. n. fonticolus (Viets 1920) GS91
    |    |    `--A. n. stygophilus Schwoerbel 1961 S86
    |    |--A. (A.) orghidani Motas & Tanasachi 1960 S86
    |    |--A. (A.) phreaticus (Motas & Tanasachi 1948) S86
    |    |--A. (A.) pilosus Schwoerbel 1961 S86
    |    |--A. (A.) plaumanni Lundblad 1953 RFF05
    |    |    |--A. p. plaumanni RFF05
    |    |    `--A. p. novus Lundblad 1953 RFF05
    |    |--A. (A.) porosus (Lundblad 1936) RFF05
    |    |    |--A. p. porosus RFF05
    |    |    `--A. p. columbianus Lundblad 1953 RFF05
    |    |--A. (A.) primitivus (Walter 1947) S86
    |    |--A. (A.) prosiliens (Motas & Tanasachi 1948) S86
    |    |--A. (A.) psammophilus Schwoerbel 1961 [incl. A. longipes Schwoerbel 1961 non Halbert 1944] S86
    |    |--A. (A.) pumilus (Szalay 1946) S86
    |    |--A. (A.) pygmaeus (Motas & Tanasachi 1948) S86
    |    |--A. (A.) radilofus Cook 1980 S86
    |    |--A. (A.) rostratus Lundblad 1953 RFF05
    |    |--A. (A.) sabulonis Cook 1967 S86
    |    |--A. (A.) schadei (Lundblad 1942) RFF05
    |    |--A. (A.) schlienzi Schwoerbel 1961 S86
    |    |--A. (A.) schwoerbeli Orghidan & Gruia 1983 S86
    |    |--A. (A.) similis (Angelier 1949) S86
    |    |--A. (A.) sinuatipes Lundblad 1953 RFF05
    |    |--A. (A.) sokolowi (Motas & Tanasachi 1948) S86
    |    |--A. (A.) subterraneus (Viets 1932) S86
    |    |    |--A. s. subterraneus S86
    |    |    |--A. s. japonensis Imamura 1958 S86
    |    |    `--A. s. obovalis (Szalay 1946) S86
    |    |--A. (A.) szalayi (Motas & Tanasachi 1948) S86
    |    |--A. (A.) talinarostris Cook 1967 S86
    |    |--A. (A.) trapeziformis Schwoerbel 1961 S86
    |    |--A. (A.) validipalpis (Lundblad 1937) RFF05
    |    |    |--A. v. validipalpis RFF05
    |    |    `--A. v. crassipes (Lundblad 1942) RFF05
    |    |--A. (A.) wevamus Cook 1980 S86
    |    |--A. (A.) yukii Cook 1967 S86
    |    `--A. (A.) zoldomus Cook 1980 S86
    `--A. (Octomegapus Viets 1926) S86
         |--A. (O.) aioiensis Imamura 1957 S86
         `--A. (O.) biscutatus Cook 1967 S86

Atractides incertae sedis:
  A. distans S86
  A. donipalpis VBB91
    |--A. d. donipalpis VBB91
    `--A. d. robustus (Sokolow 1940) VBB91
  A. grouti WL09
  A. lacustris BK91
  A. octoporus Piersig 1904 GS91
  A. ovalis BK91
  A. pavesii Maglio 1905 GS91
  A. pennatus CS91
  A. polyporus S86
  A. spinipes (Koch 1837) GS91
  A. tembolus WL09

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

[BK91] Biesiadka, E., & W. Kowalik. 1991. Water mites (Hydracarina) as indicators of trophy and pollution in lakes. 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. 1 pp. 475-481. SPB Academic Publishing: The Hague.

[CS91] Cicolani, B., & A. Di Sabatino. 1991. Sensitivity of water mites to water pollution. 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. 1 pp. 465-474. SPB Academic Publishing: The Hague.

[GS91] Gerecke, R., & J. Schwoerbel. 1991. Water quality and water mites (Acari, Actinedida) in the Upper Danube region, 1959-1984. 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. 1 pp. 483-491. SPB Academic Publishing: The Hague.

[RFF05] Rosso de Ferradás, B. & H. R. Fernández. 2005. Elenco y biogeografía de los ácaros acuáticos (Acari, Parasitengona, Hydrachnidia) de Sudamérica. Graellsia 61 (2): 181-224.

[S86] Schwoerbel, J. 1986. Acari: “Hydrachnellae”. In Stygofauna Mundi: A Faunistic, Distributional, and Ecological Synthesis of the World Fauna inhabiting Subterranean Waters (including the Marine Interstitial) (L. Botosaneanu, ed.) pp. 652-696. E. J. Brill / Dr. W. Backhuys: Leiden.

[VBB91] Valdecasas, A. G., A. Baltanás & E. Bello. 1991. A preliminary assessment of single rocks for sampling water mites. 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. 1 pp. 503-507. SPB Academic Publishing: The Hague.

[WL09] Walter, D. E., E. E. Lindquist, I. M. Smith, D. R. Cook & G. W. Krantz. 2009. Order Trombidiformes. In: Krantz, G. W. & D. E. Walter (eds) A Manual of Acarology, pp. 233-420. Texas Tech University Press.