Protereunetes

Name

Familia: Ereynetidae
Genus: Protereunetes

Eupodid mites falsely named Protereunetes (boerneri, crozeti, minutus, maudae & paulinae) were transferred to the family Eupodidae, genus Neoprotereunetes. Other species were transferred to the genus Ereynetes (see notes).

Name

Protereunetes Berlese, 1923

• Original status: subgenus
• Gender: masculine
• Type species: Micrereunetes (Protereunetes) agilis by original designation

Notes

• Berlese, (1923) erected the subgenus Protereunetes in his genus Micrereunetes.
• Thor (1933: 78) listed the genus Protereunetes as acarina erroneously assigned to the Ereynetidae.
• Thor & Willmann (1941) raised Protereunetes to full genus rank and (falsely) included this genus in the Eupodidae. This opinion was repeated by Strandtmann (1971)
• Fain (1964) worked on the typical series deposited in the Acarotheca of Florence and showed that Protereunetes actually belong to the Ereynetidae and not to the Eupodidae as previously stated.
• Fain (1964: 104) synonymyzed Protereunetes with Ereynetes.
• Subsequently, Fain & Camerik (1994) erected the genus Neoprotereunetes (Eupodidae)to accommodate eupodid mites falsely named Protereunetes.

References

• Berlese, A. 1923. Centuria sesta di Acari nuovi. 1. Prostigmata. Redia 15: 242–246.
• Fain, A. 1964. Les Ereynetidae de la collection Berlese à Florence. Désignation d'une espèce type pour le genre Ereynetes Berlese. Redia 49: 87–111.
• Fain, A. & Camerik, A.M. 1994. Notes on the mites of the genus Ereynetes Berlese (Acari: Ereynetinae), with description of five new species from South Africa. Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, entomologie 64: 145–164. PDF. Reference page. 
• Strandtmann, R.W. 1971. The eupodoid mites of Alaska. Pacific Insects 13(1): 75–118.
• Thor, S. 1933. Tydeidae, Ereynetidae. Das Tierreich 60: 1–84.
• Thor, S. & Willmann, C. 1941. Acarina. Eupodidae, Penthalodidae, Penthaleidae, Rhagidiidae, Pachygnathidae, Cunaxidae. Das Tierreich 71a: 1–186.