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(
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<emphasis id="B9420C29FFB3FA7D40AAD670FE04FEA7" box="[151,422,264,287]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="38">Gymnodamaeus plokosus</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EFA7ADCAFFB3FA7D4190D670FD62FEA7" author="Woolley" box="[429,704,264,287]" pageId="15" pageNumber="44" refString="Woolley, T. A. &amp; Higgins, H. G. (1973 a) Two new species of Gymnodamaeus from Colorado (Acari: Cryptostigmata, Gymnodamaeidae). Great Basin Naturalist, 33, 37 - 42." type="journal article" year="1973" yearSuffix="a">Woolley &amp; Higgins, 1973</bibRefCitation>
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a (
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,
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)
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<emphasis id="B9420C29FFB3FA7D40AAD650FE28FE87" box="[151,394,296,319]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="38">Pleodamaeus plokosus</emphasis>
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(
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,
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<emphasis id="B9420C29FFB3FA7D43E3D650FBB6FE87" box="[990,1044,296,319]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="38">et al.</emphasis>
1987
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<emphasis id="B9420C29FFB3FA7D40AAD616FE26FE30" bold="true" box="[151,388,366,392]" pageId="15" pageNumber="38">Material examined</emphasis>
.
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,
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DAKOTA:
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, Jackass Gulch, near Elmore, Lawrence co., RAN86- 114, in
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.IZ; female (Gym 61), Ponderosa Pine Duff, Black Hills, SD,
<date id="FF88F6FBFFB3FA7D4420D6EDFBD8FE17" box="[1053,1146,405,431]" pageId="15" pageNumber="38" value="1973-07-02">2.vii.73</date>
.
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: adult (Gym 53) birch duff, Logan Canyon, Utah,
<date id="FF88F6FBFFB3FA7D4212D6C4FDDEFE6E" box="[559,636,444,470]" pageId="15" pageNumber="38" value="1973-05-03">3.v.73</date>
; male (Gym 66), maple duff and moss, Blacksmith Fork Canyon,
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, G.F. Knowlton; female (Gym 46), pine-fir litter, Uintah, G.F. Knowlton; female (Gym 50), birch duff, Box Elder Canyon,
<date id="FF88F6FBFFB3FA7D41B7D571FE48FD9B" box="[394,490,521,547]" pageId="15" pageNumber="38" value="1973-07-01">1.vii.73</date>
, Utah, G.F. Knowlton; male (Gym 52), birch duff, Cub River Canyon, Idaho,
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, G.F. Knowlton &amp; Betert. All in
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.
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, ALBERTA: female, Cypress Hills, Lodgepole Pine Campground,
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, E.E. Lindquist, in
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.IZ; adult, Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park, Milk River Valley,
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, ex litter in thicket of
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and
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<emphasis id="B9420C29FFB3FA7D430FD505FCCFFD2E" box="[818,877,637,662]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="38">Rosa</emphasis>
, E.E. Lindquist
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, in
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. SASKATCHEWAN: male (GYM 56), ex natural grassland soil
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, Matador IBP,
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SE Kyle,
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, in
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.
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<emphasis id="B9420C29FFB3FA7D40F8D5B2FEF7FD5C" bold="true" box="[197,341,714,740]" pageId="15" pageNumber="38">Comments</emphasis>
:
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<emphasis id="B9420C29FFB3FA7D4155D5B2FDB1FD5B" box="[360,531,714,739]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="38">Pleodamaeus</emphasis>
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was proposed by Paschoal in
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and further described in
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based on a common gymnodamaeid mite found in Colorado, Wyoming, and South Dakota and originally described as a species of
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(
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). Subsequently,
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and
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,
<bibRefCitation id="EFA7ADCAFFB3FA7D4476D446FB28FCE0" author="Bayartogtokh" box="[1099,1162,830,856]" pageId="15" pageNumber="43" refString="Bayartogtokh, B. &amp; Smelyansky, I. E. (2004) Oribatid mites of the superfamilies Gymnodamaeoidea and Plateremaeoidea (Acari, Oribatida) from steppe of Russia. Mongolian Journal of Biological Sciences, 2, 3 - 17" type="journal article" year="2004">2004</bibRefCitation>
) assigned three newly described species to the genus from
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,
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, and
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, respectively.
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listed all of these species under
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<emphasis id="B9420C29FFB3FA7D419DD4F4FDFFFC1D" box="[416,605,908,933]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="38">Gymnodamaeus</emphasis>
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.
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Although poorly described originally (e.g.
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<emphasis id="B9420C29FFB3FA7D4287D4CAFC9CFC73" box="[698,830,946,971]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="38">P. plokosus</emphasis>
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has 7, not 6 pairs of genital setae), the Woolley and Higgins species differs from the Asian species assigned to
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<emphasis id="B9420C29FFB3FA7D4366D4A1FC59FC4A" box="[859,1019,985,1010]" italics="true" pageId="15" pageNumber="38">Pleodamaeus</emphasis>
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. For example, the genital and anal openings are coalesced (vs. separated by an ano-genital bridge), the interlamellar setae are inserted more anterior to the bothridia on converging apophyses (as opposed to between the bothridia) and opposed to a median prodorsal tubercle (apparently absent in Asian species), pedotecta II come to a point (like the ears of the character Spock in
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,
<figureCitation id="130DCCBEFFB3FA7D4220D30CFDD1FB36" box="[541,627,1140,1166]" captionStart="FIGURES 22 31. J" captionStartId="13.[151,269,1614,1638]" captionTargetBox="[151,1435,317,1590]" captionTargetId="figure@13.[151,1436,317,1591]" captionTargetPageId="13" captionText="FIGURES 22 31. J oshuella agrosticula Paschoal, 1983, Alberta, Canada. 22, Dorsal view (arrow points to longitudinal notogastral ridge), scale bar = 0.05 mm; 23, Ventral view (arrow points to anogenital bridge), scale bar = 0.05 mm; 24, Posterior notogaster showing 4 pairs of setae, scale bar = 10 μm; 25, Notogastral pustules, scale bar = 1 μm; 26, Tritonymph with stacked scalps, scale bar = 0.05 mm. Pleodamaeus plokosus (Woolley &amp; Higgins, 1973), South Dakota, USA. 27, Dorsal habitus, scale bar = 0.1 mm; 28, Notogastral pustule, scale bar = 1 μm; 29, Tubercular patch (arrow) on median anterior rim of notogaster, scale bar = 10 μm; 30, Light micrograph showing tubercular patch and median prodorsal tubercle. Pleodamaeus sp., Alberta, Canada. 31, Anterior notogaster and prodorsum showing acuminate pedotectum II (arrow), scale bar = 0.05 mm." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/189743/files/figure.png" pageId="15" pageNumber="38">Fig. 31</figureCitation>
), and they have a striking autapomorphy: the cluster of integumental tubercles on the anterior median rim of the notogaster (
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). These characters also are present on an undescribed species of
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from Alberta (
<figureCitation id="130DCCBEFFB3FA7D4335D3B9FCC2FB63" box="[776,864,1217,1243]" captionStart="FIGURES 22 31. J" captionStartId="13.[151,269,1614,1638]" captionTargetBox="[151,1435,317,1590]" captionTargetId="figure@13.[151,1436,317,1591]" captionTargetPageId="13" captionText="FIGURES 22 31. J oshuella agrosticula Paschoal, 1983, Alberta, Canada. 22, Dorsal view (arrow points to longitudinal notogastral ridge), scale bar = 0.05 mm; 23, Ventral view (arrow points to anogenital bridge), scale bar = 0.05 mm; 24, Posterior notogaster showing 4 pairs of setae, scale bar = 10 μm; 25, Notogastral pustules, scale bar = 1 μm; 26, Tritonymph with stacked scalps, scale bar = 0.05 mm. Pleodamaeus plokosus (Woolley &amp; Higgins, 1973), South Dakota, USA. 27, Dorsal habitus, scale bar = 0.1 mm; 28, Notogastral pustule, scale bar = 1 μm; 29, Tubercular patch (arrow) on median anterior rim of notogaster, scale bar = 10 μm; 30, Light micrograph showing tubercular patch and median prodorsal tubercle. Pleodamaeus sp., Alberta, Canada. 31, Anterior notogaster and prodorsum showing acuminate pedotectum II (arrow), scale bar = 0.05 mm." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/189743/files/figure.png" pageId="15" pageNumber="38">Fig. 31</figureCitation>
) in the PMAE.IZ and an apparent third species from the Caribbean in the OSAL. Thus, although the Nearctic specimens conform to the original description, the Asian species described by
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and
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,
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) do not and should probably be assigned to another genus.
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