Acari of Canada
Summaries of taxonomic knowledge are provided for all acarine groups in Canada, accompanied by references to relevant publications, changes in classification at the family level since 1979, and notes on biology relevant to estimating their diversity. Nearly 3000 described species from 269 families a...
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| author | Frédéric Beaulieu Wayne Knee Victoria Nowell Marla Schwarzfeld Zoë Lindo Valerie M. Behan-Pelletier Lisa Lumley Monica R. Young Ian Smith Heather C. Proctor Sergei V. Mironov Terry D. Galloway David E. Walter Evert E. Lindquist |
| author_facet | Frédéric Beaulieu Wayne Knee Victoria Nowell Marla Schwarzfeld Zoë Lindo Valerie M. Behan-Pelletier Lisa Lumley Monica R. Young Ian Smith Heather C. Proctor Sergei V. Mironov Terry D. Galloway David E. Walter Evert E. Lindquist |
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| description | Summaries of taxonomic knowledge are provided for all acarine groups in Canada, accompanied by references to relevant publications, changes in classification at the family level since 1979, and notes on biology relevant to estimating their diversity. Nearly 3000 described species from 269 families are recorded in the country, representing a 56% increase from the 1917 species reported by Lindquist et al. (1979). An additional 42 families are known from Canada only from material identified to family- or genus-level. Of the total 311 families known in Canada, 69 are newly recorded since 1979, excluding apparent new records due solely to classification changes. This substantial progress is most evident in Oribatida and Hydrachnidia, for which many regional checklists and family-level revisions have been published. Except for recent taxonomic leaps in a few other groups, particularly of symbiotic mites (Astigmata: feather mites; Mesostigmata: Rhinonyssidae), knowledge remains limited for most other taxa, for which most species records are unpublished and may require verification. Taxonomic revisions are greatly needed for a large majority of families in Canada. Based in part on species recorded in adjacent areas of the USA and on hosts known to be present here, we conservatively estimate that nearly 10,000 species of mites occur in Canada, but the actual number could be 15,000 or more. This means that at least 70% of Canada’s mite fauna is yet unrecorded. Much work also remains to match existing molecular data with species names, as less than 10% of the ~7500 Barcode Index Numbers for Canadian mites in the Barcode of Life Database are associated with named species. Understudied hosts and terrestrial and aquatic habitats require investigation across Canada to uncover new species and to clarify geographic and ecological distributions of known species. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e99faf295d674b63a16d9f66d6ecf4532022-12-21T23:29:28ZengPensoft PublishersZooKeys1313-29891313-29702019-01-018197716810.3897/zookeys.819.2830728307Acari of CanadaFrédéric Beaulieu0Wayne Knee1Victoria Nowell2Marla Schwarzfeld3Zoë Lindo4Valerie M. Behan-Pelletier5Lisa Lumley6Monica R. Young7Ian Smith8Heather C. Proctor9Sergei V. Mironov10Terry D. Galloway11David E. Walter12Evert E. Lindquist13Agriculture and Agri-Food CanadaAgriculture and Agri-Food CanadaAgriculture and Agri-Food CanadaAgriculture and Agri-Food CanadaWestern UniversityAgriculture and Agri-Food CanadaRoyal Alberta MuseumUniversity of GuelphAgriculture and Agri-Food CanadaUniversity of AlbertaZoological Institute of the Russian Academy of SciencesUniversity of ManitobaUniversity of Sunshine CoastAgriculture and Agri-Food CanadaSummaries of taxonomic knowledge are provided for all acarine groups in Canada, accompanied by references to relevant publications, changes in classification at the family level since 1979, and notes on biology relevant to estimating their diversity. Nearly 3000 described species from 269 families are recorded in the country, representing a 56% increase from the 1917 species reported by Lindquist et al. (1979). An additional 42 families are known from Canada only from material identified to family- or genus-level. Of the total 311 families known in Canada, 69 are newly recorded since 1979, excluding apparent new records due solely to classification changes. This substantial progress is most evident in Oribatida and Hydrachnidia, for which many regional checklists and family-level revisions have been published. Except for recent taxonomic leaps in a few other groups, particularly of symbiotic mites (Astigmata: feather mites; Mesostigmata: Rhinonyssidae), knowledge remains limited for most other taxa, for which most species records are unpublished and may require verification. Taxonomic revisions are greatly needed for a large majority of families in Canada. Based in part on species recorded in adjacent areas of the USA and on hosts known to be present here, we conservatively estimate that nearly 10,000 species of mites occur in Canada, but the actual number could be 15,000 or more. This means that at least 70% of Canada’s mite fauna is yet unrecorded. Much work also remains to match existing molecular data with species names, as less than 10% of the ~7500 Barcode Index Numbers for Canadian mites in the Barcode of Life Database are associated with named species. Understudied hosts and terrestrial and aquatic habitats require investigation across Canada to uncover new species and to clarify geographic and ecological distributions of known species.https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/28307/ |
| spellingShingle | Frédéric Beaulieu Wayne Knee Victoria Nowell Marla Schwarzfeld Zoë Lindo Valerie M. Behan-Pelletier Lisa Lumley Monica R. Young Ian Smith Heather C. Proctor Sergei V. Mironov Terry D. Galloway David E. Walter Evert E. Lindquist Acari of Canada ZooKeys |
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