Acalvolia

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Classis: Arachnida
Subclassis: Acari
Superordo: Acariformes
Ordo: Oribatida
Infraordo: Desmonomata
Cohort: Astigmata
Subordo: Acaridia
Superfamilia: Hemisarcoptoidea

Familia: Winterschmidtiidae
Subfamilia: Saproglyphinae
Genus: Acalvolia
Species (2): A. americana – A. squamata

[source: Fan, George & Kumarasinghe (2010)]
Name

Acalvolia Fain, 1971
Gender: feminine
Type species: Vidia squamata Oudemans, 1909

References

Fain, A. 1971: Notes sur les hypopes des Saproglyphidae (Acarina: Sarcoptiformes). I. Diagnoses de taxa nouveaus. Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines, 84: 281−284. [not seen]
Fain, A.; Knülle, W. 1981: The life-cycle of Acalvolia squamata (Oudemans, 1909) (Acari, Astigmata, Saproglyphidae). International journal of acarology, 7 (1-4): 139−142. DOI: 10.1080/01647958108683255 [not seen]
Fan, Q.-H.; George, S.; Kumarasinghe, L. 2010: Genus Acalvolia (Acari: Winterschmidtiidae), with the description of a new species from the USA. Zootaxa, 2719: 41–61. Preview

Links

ION [no record yet of Acalvolia americana]
Nomenclator Zoologicus