Pseuduropoda Oudemans, 1936

Halliday, R. B., 2015, Catalogue of genera and their type species in the mite Suborder Uropodina (Acari: Mesostigmata), Zootaxa 3972 (2), pp. 101-147 : 127

Pseuduropoda Oudemans, 1936

Pseuduropoda Oudemans, 1936: 407 .

Type species Notaspis obscurus Koch, 1835: 5 , by monotypy. (= Acarus vegetans De Geer, 1768 )

Notes. T he genus name Notaspis Koch, 1835 is a junior homonym of Notaspis Hermann, 1804 , and was replaced by Pseuduropoda Oudemans, 1936 . The type species of Notaspis Koch, 1835 is Notaspis obscurus Koch, 1835 by monotypy; this is therefore also the type species of Pseuduropoda Oudemans, 1936 . However, Oudemans (1936) stated that the type species of Pseuduropoda is Acarus vegetans De Geer, 1768 . Notaspis obscurus Koch, 1835 is a junior subjective synonym of Acarus vegetans De Geer, 1768 (not Acarus vegetans Latreille, 1806 ). Acarus vegetans De Geer, 1768 is also a subjective synonym of Notaspis marginatus Koch, 1839 (see for example, Farrier & Hennessey, 1993). Notaspis marginatus Koch, 1839 is the type species of Fuscuropoda Vitzthum, 1924 . Pseuduropoda therefore becomes a subjective synonym of Fuscuropoda . The genus name has been incorrectly spelled as Pseudouropoda by some authors. Some sources refer to a genus name Pseuduropoda Berlese, 1888 , but no such name exists.