Geckobia

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: Trombidiformes
Subordo: Prostigmata
Cohort: Anystina
Superfamilia: Pterygosomatoidea

Familia: Pterygosomatidae
Subfamilia: Pterygosomatinae
Genus: Geckobia
Species: G. estherae – G. gymnodactyli – G. haplodactyli – G. hirsti – G. loricata – G. naultina – ...
Name

Geckobia Mégnin, 1878

Primary references

Mégnin 1878: Ann. Soc. ent. France, (5) 8, 188.

References

Bertrand M. ; Kukushkin O. & Pogrebnyak S., 2013: A New Species of Mites of the Genus Geckobia (Prostigmata, Pterygosomatidae), Parasitic on Mediodactylus kotschyi (Reptilia, Gekkota) from Crimea. Vestnik Zoologii, 47 (2):
Bochkov, A.V.; Mironov, S.V. 2000: Two new species of the genus Geckobia (Acari: Pterygosomatidae) from geckons (Lacertilia: Gekkonomorpha) with a brief review of host-parasite associations of the genus. Russian journal of herpetology, 7(1): 61–68. PDF
Womersley, H. 1941: New species of Geckobia (Acarina, Pterygosomidae) from Australia and New Zealand. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 65: 323–328. PDF

Geckobia is a genus of parasitic mites in the family Pterygosomatidae.[1]
Species

Selected species include:

Geckobia bataviensis[2]
Geckobia estherae[3]
Geckobia glebosum[2]
Geckobia nitidus[1]
Geckobia zapallarensis[1]

References

Fajfer, Monika (February 2015). "Mites of the new species group nitidus (Acariformes: Pterygosomatidae: Geckobia), parasites of lizards in South America". Systematic Parasitology. 90 (2): 213–220. doi:10.1007/s11230-014-9545-9. ISSN 1573-5192. PMID 25655118. S2CID 255063622.
Prawasti, TARUNI SRI; Farajallah, ACHMAD; Raffiudin, RIKA (2013-06-01). "Three Species of Ectoparasite Mites (Acari: Pterygosomatidae) Infested Geckos in Indonesia". HAYATI Journal of Biosciences. 20 (2): 80–88. doi:10.4308/hjb.20.2.80. ISSN 1978-3019.
Bertrand M., Pfliegler W.P and Sciberras A.(2012) Does the African native host explain the African origin of the parasite? The Maltese Gekobia estherae n.sp parasitic on Tarentola mauritanica (Acari:Raphignathoidea :Pterygosomatidae). Acarologia 52(4): 353–366.