Genera of Gymnodamaeidae (Acari: Oribatida: Plateremaeoidea) of Canada, with notes on some nomenclatorial problems
Author
Walter, David Evans
text
Zootaxa
2009
2206
23
44
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.189740
8dc3930d-f5da-496f-a86f-f0da1543811a
1175-5326
189740
Joshuella striata
Wallwork, 1972
Material examined
:
USA
, CALIFORNIA: female, Tehama County,
2 miles
NE Dales,
2.xii.1991
, ex sifted buckeye litter, D.S. Chandler, in
CNC
.
Comments:
Paschoal (1983c)
stated that the
holotype
of
J. bicentenaria
is a male, but the slide labelled ‘holotype’ in OSAL is a female and possibly represents a
paratype
.
Joshuella
is a distinctive genus of three species known from grasslands in western North
America
and can be differentiated from other genera by the parallel longitudinal cerotegumental ridges with large pustules on the notogaster (
Fig. 22
) and the 6 pairs of genital setae. The species are differentiated in the key below.