Australian Museum Journal A review of the family Pheroliodidae Paschoal in Australia (Acarina: Cryptostigmata: Plateremaeoidea)
- Shortform:
- Hunt, 1996, Rec. Aust. Mus. 48(3): 325–358
- Author(s):
- Hunt, Glenn S.
- Year published:
- 1996
- Title:
- A review of the family Pheroliodidae Paschoal in Australia (Acarina: Cryptostigmata: Plateremaeoidea)
- Serial title:
- Records of the Australian Museum
- Volume:
- 48
- Issue:
- 3
- Start page:
- 325
- End page:
- 358
- DOI:
- 10.3853/j.0067-1975.48.1996.433
- Language:
- English
- Date published:
- 11 December 1996
- Cover date:
- 11 December 1996
- ISSN:
- 0067-1975
- CODEN:
- RAUMAJ
- Publisher:
- The Australian Museum
- Place published:
- Sydney, Australia
- Subjects:
- ; LORD HOWE ISLAND
- Digitized:
- 23 March 2009
- Available online:
- 16 July 2009
- Reference number:
- 433
- EndNote package:
- EndNote file
- Title page:
- Title page (99kb PDF)
- Complete work:
- Complete work (16890kb PDF)
Abstract
The paper reviews the family Pheroliodidae (Plateremaeoidea) in Australia and a rediagnosis is given for the type genus, Pheroliodes. A monotypic genus Neonooliodes n.gen. is established for N. ceroplastes n.sp. Eight new Pheroliodes species are described: P. springthorpei n.sp., P. barringtonensis n.sp., P. concavus n.sp., P. lindsayae n.sp., P. lordhowensis n.sp., P. monteithi n.sp., P. sicarius n.sp. and P. transversus n.sp. Octoliodes robustus (Hunt & Lee) is recombined from Pheroliodes, a supplementary description and new records given, and a rediagnosis given for genus Octoliodes. A key is given for the 11 Australian species currently placed in the Pheroliodidae. Characters of special significance for the family are discussed. A key is presented for ten plateremaeoid genera represented in Australia.