Scapheremaeus patella (Berlese, 1886)

Colloff, Matthew J., 2009, Comparative morphology and species-groups of the oribatid mite genus Scapheremaeus (Acari: Oribatida: Cymbaeremaeidae), with new species from South Australia, Zootaxa 2213, pp. 1-46 : 40-41

Scapheremaeus patella (Berlese, 1886)

Eremaeus patella Berlese, 1886 , fasc. 33, no. 10.

Cymbaeremaeus (Scapheremaeus) patella: Berlese, 1910 , 226, fig. 63. Scapheremaeus patella: Mahunka, 1977 , 914, figs. 14, 15.

Cymbaeremaeus (Scapheremaeus) patella: Castagnoli & Pegazzano, 1985 , 309. Scapheremaeus patella: Mahunka & Mahunka-Papp, 1995 , pp. 62, 160, fig. 75. Scapheremaeus patella: Perez-Iñigo, 1996 , 43. [redescription]

Type depository: Berlese Acaroteca, Firenze.

Type locality: Firenze, ITALY.

Habitat: thin layer of dry moss on ground under Manuka shrub in thermal area (Hammer, 1966); soil at base of rocks near entrance to cave (Mahunka, 1977)

Distribution: Italy (Berlese, 1910); Greece (Mahunka, 1977); Austria (Schatz, 1983); Canary Islands (Pérez-Iñigo & Peña, 1996).

Note: S. patella Hammer, 1966 is a junior homonym of S. patella (Berlese, 1886) and was renamed S. hammerae (cf. Above) by Balogh and Balogh (2002).