Carabodes higginsi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Oribatida
Family: Carabodidae
Genus: Carabodes
Species:
C. higginsi
Binomial name
Carabodes higginsi
Reeves, 1988

Carabodes higginsi is a species of mite in the family Carabodidae. Found in North America, it was described as a new species in 1988 by botanist Robert Gatlin Reeves. It occurs in the northeastern United States and in the Maritime Provinces of Canada. The mite is named after a friend of the author, Harold G. Higgins of Salt Lake City, Utah.[1] A study conducted in New York that showed that the mite is one of several that takes shelter in the thallus of the common North American lichen Punctelia rudecta.[2]

References

  1. Reeves, R.M. (1988). "Distribution and habitat comparisons for Carabodes collected from conifer branches with descriptions of brevis Banks and higginsi n. sp.(Acari: Oribatida: Carabodidae)". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 90 (3): 373–392.
  2. Root, Heather T.; McGee, Gregory G.; Norton, Roy A. (2007). "Arboreal mite communities on epiphytic lichens of the Adirondack Mountains of New York". Northeastern Naturalist. 14 (3): 425–438. doi:10.1656/1092-6194(2007)14[425:AMCOEL]2.0.CO;2.


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