Ulyxes, a new Australopapuan mite genus associated with arboreal nests (Acari: Laelapidae)
Author
Shaw, Matthew D.
text
Zootaxa
2014
2014-10-24
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.3878.3.3
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Ulyxes ulixes
(Domrow, 1972)
new comb.
(
Fig. 54
)
Haemolaelaps ulysses
.
—
Domrow, 1964:156
(misidentification)
Haemolaelaps ulixes
Domrow, 1972a: 112
;
1988: 833
.
Androlaelaps ulixes
.
—
Halliday, 1998: 123
.
Additional material:
1 female
,
Bauple State Forest
,
8 Dec 1999
,
M. Shaw
,
K. Wormington
, ex tree hollow in stag ca. 10 metres high occupied by regularly resident
Petauroides volans
Greater Glider
, material vacuumed from floor of hollow one hour after glider left for nightly feeding, nest 279
.
Remarks.
This species is only known from
Petauroides volans
, the Greater Glider. Based on its small chelicerae, and the single weak tooth in the fixed digit, this species is assumed to be parasitic (
Table 3
).