Parapronematus ferox

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Tydeoidea 

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Kingdom: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: ParaHoxozoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Classis: Arachnida
Subclassis: Acari
Superordo: Acariformes
Ordo: Trombidiformes
Subordo: Prostigmata
Cohort: Eupodina
Superfamilia: Tydeoidea

Familia: Iolinidae
Subfamilia: Pronematinae
Genus: Parapronematus
Species: P. ferox

Name

Parapronematus ferox Gupta, 1991

  • Type locality: ex Rubus ferox, Arunachal Pradesh Miao(India)
  • Holotype: National Collection of the Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta, India-♀

Notes

  • Figures also in Gupta (2002).
  • Description completed by De Vis et al. (2025: 353).

References

  • De Vis, R.M.J., Lacerda, J.D.A., Moraes, G.J. de, Ueckermann, E.A. 2025. Pronematinae (Trombidiformes: Iolinidae) from Brazil, with original and complementary descriptions of taxa as well as with a reappraisal of the subfamily and of Parapronematus Acarologia 65(2): 331-372. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 
  • Gupta, S.K. 1991. Studies on predatory prostigmatid mites of northeast India with descriptions of new species and new records from India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India 88(2): 207-239.
  • Gupta, S.K. 2002. A monograph on plant inhabiting predatory mites (Part 1). Orders: Prostigmata, Astigmata and Cryptostigmata. Memoirs of the Zoological Survey of India 19(2): 1-183.
  • Silva, G.L. da, Metzelthin, M.H., Silva, O.S. da & Ferla, N.J. 2016. Catalogue of the mite family Tydeidae (Acari: Prostigmata) with the world key to the species. Zootaxa 4135(1): 1–68. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4135.1.1. Reference page.