Tydeus californicus

Familia: Tydeidae
Subfamilia: Tydeinae
Genus: Tydeus
Species:

Tydeus californicus (Banks, 1904)

• Type locality: ex orange leaves, Berkeley, California (US.A.)
• Holotype: ?

• Tetranychoides californica, original combination
• Tydeus californicus, subsequent combination used by Baker & Wharton (1952: 192) and Silva et al. (2016: 35)
• Tydeus (Tydeus) californicus, subsequent combination used by Baker (1970: 174)
• Orthotydeus kochi, subsequent designation used by Castagnoli (1984: 311)

• Suspected to be a junior synonym of Tydeus spathulatus by Ueckermann & Grout (2007: 2364)

• Ueckermann et al. (2019: 505) are questioning the identity of the Turkish specimens of Tydeus californicus (Banks) as the expanded caudal setae (spatulate) differs from specimens from the USA (lanceolate).

• Baker, E.W. 1970. The genus Tydeus: subgenera and species group with descriptions of new species (Acarina: Tydeidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 63: 163–177. Reference page. 
• Baker, E.W. & Wharton, G.W. 1952. An introduction to acarology. Macmillan, New York. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.6810 Reference page. 
• Castagnoli, M. 1984. Contributo alla conoscenza dei Tideidi (Acarina: Tydeidae) delle piante coltivate in Italia. Redia 67: 307–322.
• Banks, N. 1904. Four new species of injurious mites. The New York Entomological Society 12: 54–56.
• 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. 
• Ueckermann, E.A., Çobanoğlu, S. & Sağlam, H.D. 2019. Re-description of two new tydeid records (Acari: Trombidiformes) with a key to Tydoidea species of Turkey. Systematic & applied Acarology 24(3): 497–450. Reference page. 
• Ueckermann, E.A. & Grout, T.G. 2007. Tydeoid mites (Acari:Tydeidae, Edbakerellidae, Iolinidae) occurring on Citrus in southern Africa. Journal of Natural History 41: 2351–2378.