Eviphididae Berlese 1913
Creators: name: Bolger, Thomas
name: Arroyo, Julio
name: Piotrowska, Katarzyna
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Mesostigmata
Eviphididae

description: Family Eviphididae Berlese, 1913
Alliphis Halbert, 1923
• Alliphis halleri (G. & R. Canestrini, 1881)
• Original name: Gamasus halleri G. & R. Canestrini, 1881.
• In: Atti del Reale Istituto veneto di scienze, lettere ed arti, Series 5, 7: 1077.
• Combinations/variations used in Irish literature: Copriphis (Alliphis) halleri (G. & R. Canestrini) (Halbert, 1923).
Irish Records: Decaying roots of henbane and under bark of decaying wood (Halbert, 1923); pasture (Curry, 1969a, b, 1973, 1976a, b; Cunningham, 1975; Ganley, 1976; Curry & Ganley, 1977; Curry & Tuohy, 1978; Curry & Cunningham, 1978; Purvis, 1978; Tuohy, 1979; Bolger, 1980; Bolger & Curry, 1980, 1984; O’Neill, 1981; Piotrowska, 2009); pasture on cutaway peat (Whelan, 1976, 1978, 1985, 1986; Curry & Momen, 1988; Curry et al., 1989); manure on soil surface (Curry, 1979); soil in sugar beet crop (Breslin, 1979; Curry & Purvis, 1982); plants and soil in barley and winter wheat crops (Emmanuel, 1977; Emmanuel et al., 1985b; unpublished data); bread vans (Cusack et al., 1975); Salix ditch at seashore (Purvis, 1982); winter wheat crop (Kelly & Curry, 1985); soil under Norway spruce (Heneghan, 1994); nest of Lasius flavus and pasture (Arroyo et al., 2015); bedding of Oryctolagus cuniculus (unpublished data).
Counties: Carlow, Cork, Dublin, Galway, Kildare, Kilkenny, Limerick, Meath, Offaly, Wexford.
Crassicheles Karg, 1963
• Crassicheles concentricus (Oudemans, 1904)
• Original name: Eviphis concentricus Oudemans, 1905.
• In: Entomologische Berichten Nederland, 2: 1.
Irish Records: Pasture (Purvis, 1978, O’Neill, 1981).
Counties: Kildare, Meath.
• Crassicheles holsaticus Willmann, 1937
• Original name: Eviphis holsaticus Willmann, 1937.
• In: Schriften des Naturwissenschaftichen Vereins fuer Schleswig -Holstein, 22: 18.
Irish Records: Soil and phoretic on sphaerocerid flies and staphylinid beetles in pasture (Bolger, 1980; Evans, 1980).
Counties: Kildare.
Eviphis Berlese, 1903
• Eviphis ostrinus (Koch, 1836)
• Original name: Iphis ostrinus Koch, 1836
• In: Deutschlands Crustaceen, Myriopoden und Arachniden. 1835–1844. Regensburg, fasc.2 (6).
• Combinations/variations used in Irish literature: Euphis ostrinus (Koch) (Halbert, 1915; Hull, 1918).
Irish Records: Moss and under fir cones (Halbert, 1915); pasture (Curry, 1969a; Valarasan, 1971; Piotrowska, 2009); Sphagnum, heather, pine shelter bed and pasture on bog (Longworth, 1973; Whelan, 1976); Salix ditch at seashore (Purvis, 1982); soil under Norway spruce (Heneghan, 1994; unpublished data); fungal sporocarp (O’Connell, 1994; unpublished data); ash and mixed broadleaved woodlands (Little & Bolger, 1995; unpublished data); fore dunes of Machair (Arroyo & Bolger, 2011); soil under birch, oak, Norway spruce, Leyland cypress, Monterey pine, mixed broadleaved forest and pasture (unpublished data).
Counties: Donegal, Dublin, Kildare, Kilkenny, Mayo, Wexford, Wicklow.
Thinoseius Halbert, 1920 • Thinoseius fucicolus (Halbert, 1920) • Original name: Lasioseius fucicola Halbert, 1920. • In: Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, 35: 125. • Combinations/variations used in Irish literature: Lasioseius fucicola Halbert (Halbert, 1920), Thinoseius berlesii Halbert (Halbert, 1920, c.f. Luxton, 1998).
Irish Records: Decaying seaweed on rocky shore (Halbert, 1920, see also Anon. 1918); sandy beach
(Healy & McGrath, 1998).
Counties: Dublin, Wexford.
description: Published as part of Bolger, Thomas, Arroyo, Julio & Piotrowska, Katarzyna, 2018, A catalogue of the species of Mesostigmata (Arachnida, Acari, Parasitiformes) recorded from Ireland including information on their geographical distribution and habitats, pp. 1-220 in Zootaxa 4519 (1) on pages 118-121, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4519.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2609574