Biology:Penthaleus major
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Short description: Species of mite
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Trombidiformes |
| Family: | Penthaleidae |
| Genus: | Penthaleus |
| Species: | P. major
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| Binomial name | |
| Penthaleus major (Dugès, 1834)
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Penthaleus major, known generally as the winter grain mite or blue oat mite, is a species of earth mite in the family Penthaleidae.[1][2][3][4]
Description
The blue oat mite measures anywhere from 1/32 to 1/16 inch, and has orange-red legs and a dark blue to black body with a red or orange spot on its upper abdomen.[5] Their front legs are barely the longest.
Distribution and habitat
The blue oat mite has been reported across the world, in New Zealand, Australia, Germany, Spain, France, Greenland, Iceland, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Morocco, South Africa, the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Argentina.[6] It is found in pastures and crops, sometimes along with Halotydeus destructor, Sminthurus viridis and other pests.[7]
References
- ↑ "Penthaleus major species details". http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/details/species/id/e7eb659c34b4b5f66a5c231f47e1643f. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
- ↑ "Penthaleus major". https://www.gbif.org/species/2131880. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
- ↑ "Penthaleus major Species Information". https://bugguide.net/node/view/315733. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
- ↑ "Penthaleus major Overview". http://eol.org/pages/3199233/overview. Retrieved 2018-04-06.
- ↑ "Mites in Small Grains". https://extension.okstate.edu/fact-sheets/mites-in-small-grains.html.
- ↑ da Silva Pereira, Paulo Roberto Valle; Salvadori, José Roberto; Navia, Denise; Lampert, Silvana; Savaris, Marcoandre (February 2017). "First Record of Penthaleus major (Acari: Penthaleidae) in Brazil". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 119(1):157-161. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/313737184_First_Record_of_Penthaleus_major_Acari_Penthaleidae_in_Brazil.
- ↑ "Penthaleus major (blue oat mite)". https://plantwiseplusknowledgebank.org/doi/10.1079/PWKB.Species.39610.
Further reading
- Encyclopedia of Entomology. Springer. 2008. ISBN 978-1402062421.
- Comstock, John Henry (1912). The spider book: A manual for the study of the spiders and their near relatives, the scorpions, pseudoscorpions, whip-scorpions, harvestmen, and other members of the class arachnida, found in America North of Mexico, with analytical keys for their clas.... ISBN 978-1295195817.
- Halliday, R.B.; O’connor, O’B.M.; Baker, A.S. (2000). "Global diversity of mites". Nature and Human Society—the Quest for a Sustainable World (National Academy Press): 192–203. doi:10.17226/6142. ISBN 978-0-309-06555-9.
- Jackman, John A. (2002). A Field Guide to Spiders and Scorpions of Texas. Gulf Publishing. ISBN 978-0877192640.
- A Manual of Acarology (3rd ed.). Texas Tech University Press. 2009. ISBN 9780896726208.
- Skoracki, M.; Zabludovskaya, S.; Bochkov, A.V. (2012). "A review of Prostigmata (Acariformes: Trombidiformes) permanently associated with birds". Acarina 20 (2): 67–107. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/235754331.
- Zhang, Z.Q.; Fan, Q.H.; Pesic, V.; Smit, H. et al. (2011). "Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness, order trombidiformes reuter, 1909". Zootaxa 3148: 129–138. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3148.1.24. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/257872652.
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q10623375 entry
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