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From: 	"Ali Ahadiyat" <alia_ir@hotmail.com>
To:	<acarology@nhm.ac.uk>
Date: 	5/21/03 7:54p.m.
Subject: 	Authors and the year of authorship of some mites

Dear colleagues,

        I am looking for the author names and the year of authorship of the following mites:

1) Tribe: Cheletogenini Volgin, year 1968 or 1987 ?, of the family Cheyletidae.
2) Who was the author of the subfamily Cheyletinae? Fain, Leach or Volgin? What's the year?
3) Species: Trichouropoda similibipilis author ??, year ?? (Meso.: Trematuridae).
4) Species: Ameroseius lidiae Bregetova, year ?? (Meso. Ameroseiidae).
5) Genus: Saproglyphus author ?, year ? .
6) Species: Pyemotes boylei author ?, year ? (Pros.: Pyemotidae). It's a synonym for P. tritici .


        I would greatly appreciate your guidance.

With many thanks,
Sincerely,

Ali Ahadiyat
Tehran, IRAN

From: 	"Barry M. OConnor" <bmoc@umich.edu>
To:	"Ali Ahadiyat" <alia_ir@hotmail.com>, <acarology@nhm.ac.uk>
Date: 	5/22/03 12:23a.m.
Subject: 	Re: Authors and the year of authorship of some mites

At 11:47 AM +0430 5/21/03, Ali Ahadiyat wrote:
>     Dear colleagues,           I am looking  for the author names and the
>year of authorship of the following  mites:   1) Tribe: Cheletogenini
>Volgin, year  1968 or 1987 ?, of the family Cheyletidae. 2) Who was the
>author of the subfamily  Cheyletinae? Fain, Leach or Volgin? What's the
>year? 3) Species: Trichouropoda  similibipilis author ??, year ?? (Meso.:
>Trematuridae). 4) Species: Ameroseius lidiae  Bregetova, year ?? (Meso.
>Ameroseiidae). 5) Genus: Saproglyphus author  ?, year ? . 6) Species:
>Pyemotes boylei  author ?, year ? (Pros.: Pyemotidae). It's a synonym for
>P. tritici  .              I would greatly  appreciate your guidance.  
>With many thanks, Sincerely,   Ali Ahadiyat Tehran,  IRAN

Dear Ali -

1.  Authorship of Cheletogenini is Volgin, 1968.  Names always date to the
original publication; in this case the original Russian work, not the 1987
English translation.

2.  According to the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, names
in the "family group" (i.e. tribe through superfamily) are coordinate, so
the first use of a name at any of these ranks gives the original
authorship.  In this case, the author is Leach, 1815, who first proposed a
"family group" name based on the genus Cheyletus.  Leach is thus the author
of the superfamily Cheyletoidea, family Cheyletidae, subfamily Cheyletinae,
and tribe Cheyletini.

3.  Hirschmann (1993 - Die Uropodiden der Erde) gives the authorship of
Trichouropoda  similibipilis as Hirschmann, 1972  (Acarologie 17:8).

4.  Ameroseius lidiae appears to have first been published in "Opredelitel'
Obitayushchikh v pochve kleshchei - Mesostigmata" (1977).  The authors of
this work are N.G. Bregetova, B.A. Wainshtein, B.A. Kadite, E.V. Koroleva,
A. D. Petrova, S.I. Tikhomirov and G. I. Shcherbak.  I believe the new
species described in this work are commonly attributed to Bregetova alone.
Note that the publication of this new species only in a key couplet does
meet the criteria of availability for the ICZN.

5.  The author of Saproglyphus is Berlese, 1890

6.  The author of the name Pyemotes boylei is Krczal, 1959 (Zoologischer
Anzeiger 163: 148-152.

All the best! - Barry

Barry M. OConnor
Curator & Professor             phone: (734) 763-4354
Museum of Zoology               FAX: (734) 763-4080
University of Michigan          e-mail: bmoc@umich.edu
1109 Geddes Ave.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1079  USA

From: 	"Michel Valim" <mpvalim@hotmail.com>
To:	<acarology@nhm.ac.uk>
Date: 	5/22/03 12:45a.m.
Subject: 	Synonymous of Struthiopterolichus

Dear Colleagues


     Somebody would know to inform if Struthiopterolichus sculpturatus 
(Hirst, 1920) is a valid species? Or it is synonymous of S. bicaldatus 
(Gervais, 1847)? And finally, this genus contains only these two species?


Thanks, very much.
Michel P. Valim
Rio de Janeiro - Brazil

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From: 	"Barry M. OConnor" <bmoc@umich.edu>
To:	"Michel Valim" <mpvalim@hotmail.com>, <acarology@nhm.ac.uk>
Date: 	5/22/03 4:00a.m.
Subject: 	Re: Synonymous of Struthiopterolichus

At 9:30 AM -0300 5/21/03, Michel Valim wrote:
>Dear Colleagues
>
>
>     Somebody would know to inform if Struthiopterolichus sculpturatus
>(Hirst, 1920) is a valid species? Or it is synonymous of S. bicaudatus
>(Gervais, 1847)? And finally, this genus contains only these two species?
>
>
The last review of this genus is that of Andre (1960 - Acarologia 2:
556-567).  He recognized both of names as species, although noting that
they were very close.  Two other species are also described in this paper,
one attributed to Gaud.  Note that the date of Gervais' species is 1844,
not 1847.
	Clearly, there is some taxonomic work to be done with this genus.
	All the best! - Barry

Barry M. OConnor
Curator & Professor             phone: (734) 763-4354
Museum of Zoology               FAX: (734) 763-4080
University of Michigan          e-mail: bmoc@umich.edu
1109 Geddes Ave.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1079  USA

From: "Michel Valim" <mpvalim@hotmail.com>