Geckobiella

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
Genus: Geckobiella
Species (11): G. bakeri – G. boneti – G. diolii – G. donnae – G. harrisi – G. javieri – G. pelaezi – G. pyriformis – G. stamii – G. texana – G. trombidiiformis
Name

Geckobiella Hirst, 1917
Type species: Geckobia texana Banks, 1904
Fixation: monotypy

Synonymy

Geckobiella Hirst, 1917: 138; Hirst 1926: 199; Radford 1943: 71; 1950: 377; Baker and Wharton 1952: 208; Lawrence 1953: 15; Paredes-León, Klompen & Pérez, 2012.
Geckobiella (Hirstiella) Berlese, 1920: 194.
Hirstiella (in part): Hirst 1926: 197; Vitzthum 1942: 806; Radford 1943: 71; 1950: 377; Baker and Wharton 1952: 208; Cunliffe 1952: 162; Jack 1961: 305; Cruz, 1984: 2.
Cyclurobia Cruz, 1984: 5, syn. Bochkov 2008: 338

Primary references

Hirst, A.S., 1917: On some new mites living on lizards. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 8: 136–143.

References

Paredes-León, R.; Klompen, H.; Pérez, T.M. 2012: Systematic revision of the genera Geckobiella Hirst, 1917 and Hirstiella Berlese, 1920 (Acari: Prostigmata: Pterygosomatidae) with description of a new genus for American species parasites on geckos formerly placed in Hirstiella. Zootaxa 3510: 1–40. Preview PDF Reference page.