Opilioacarus aenigmus Dunlop, Sempf & Wunderlich, 2008

Araújo, Marcel Santos De, Palma, Antonella Di & Feres, Reinaldo José Fazzio, 2020, Catalog of the Opilioacarida (Acari: Parasitiformes), Zootaxa 4895 (3), pp. 332-356 : 348

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4895.3.2

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:D2CCF661-B1C9-45A5-B344-E01C519716C5

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4361438

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E7A162-FFE3-684D-FF14-E1CCFAFEFD19

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Plazi

scientific name

Opilioacarus aenigmus Dunlop, Sempf & Wunderlich, 2008
status

 

7.1. † Opilioacarus aenigmus Dunlop, Sempf & Wunderlich, 2008 View in CoL

Opilioacarus aenigmus Dunlop et al. 2008: 65–66 View in CoL , figs. 1–5 (original description)

Holotype: RUSSIA. The fossil described here derives from the Wunderlich collection (F1882/BB/AC/CJW) and will eventually be transferred either to the Senckenberg Museum (Frankfurt am Main) or the Ĝrlitz Museum.

Distribution: Baltic amber, exact locality not recorded, but probably from the vicinity of Kaliningrad, Baltic coast of Russia. It is generally dated at Palaeogene (Eocene), with an approximate age of 45–50 Ma.

Etymology: Named after the unresolved questions about its identity as an Opilioacarus or Neocarus .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Opilioacarida

Family

Opilioacaridae

Genus

Opilioacarus

Loc

Opilioacarus aenigmus Dunlop, Sempf & Wunderlich, 2008

Araújo, Marcel Santos De, Palma, Antonella Di & Feres, Reinaldo José Fazzio 2020
2020
Loc

Opilioacarus aenigmus

Dunlop 2008: 65 - 66
2008
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