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Belba

{{Short description|Genus of mites}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2016}}

{{Taxobox

| image = Notaspis Corynopus (Hermann, 1804).png

| image_caption = Notaspis corynopus

| regnum = Animalia

| phylum = Arthropoda

| classis = Arachnida

| ordo = Oribatida

| superfamilia = Damaeoidea

| familia = Damaeidae

| genus = Belba

| genus_authority = Heyden, 1826

| type_species = Notaspis corynopus

| type_species_authority = (Hermann, 1804)

}}

Belba is a genus of mites belonging to family Damaeidae.{{cite web|url=http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=174674|website=Fauna Europaea|title=Fauna Europaea: Taxon Details|date=29 August 2013|access-date=20 December 2016}}{{dead link|date=January 2023|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} The genus was established by Carl von Heyden in 1826. Notaspis corynopus (Hermann, 1804) was the type species.{{cite journal|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233452969|title=New oribatid mites of the genus Belba (Acari: Oribatida: Damaeidae) from Mongolia|format=PDF|journal=International Journal of Acarology|volume=26|number=4|page=297|date=December 2000|doi=10.1080/01647950008684204|access-date=20 December 2016|last1=Bayartogtokh|first1=Badamdorj|s2cid=85070964}} Species that are part of the genus can be found in Eurasia and North America.{{cite web|author=Christopher Taylor|url=http://taxondiversity.fieldofscience.com/2015/10/belba-belba.html|title=Belba (Belba)|website=taxondiversity.fieldofscience.com|date=20 October 2015|access-date=20 December 2016}}

Behaviour

Members of the genus Belba are fungivores.{{cite book|author1=Maurice W. Sabelis|author2=Jan Bruin|title=Trends in Acarology: Proceedings of the 12th International Congress|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BBGkhCHzyfkC&pg=PA218|date=16 November 2010|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-90-481-9837-5|page=218}} Some species have been concluded to prefer a narrow temperature range of 11{{nbsp}}°C – 15{{nbsp}}°C.{{cite journal|url=http://www1.montpellier.inra.fr/CBGP/acarologia/export_pdf.php?id=3755&typefile=pdf|title=THE BEHAVIOUR OF BELBA GENICULOSA OUDMS. AND CERTAIN OTHER SPECIES OF ORIBATID MITES IN CONTROLLED TEMPERATURE GRADIENTS|author=David S. Madge|journal=Acarologia|issue=VII|volume=2|date=1965|format=PDF|page=404|access-date=20 December 2016}}

List of species

The following species are considered to be part of the genus:

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See also

{{Portal|Arthropods}}

References

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Further reading

  • {{cite journal|author=David S. Madge|title=The water relations of Belba geniculosa Oudms. and other species of oribatid mites|journal=Acarologia|volume=6|pages=199–223|date=1964}}
  • {{cite journal|author=David S. Madge|title=Further studies on the behaviour of Belba geniculosa Oudms. in relation to various envinronmental stimuli|journal=Acarologia|volume=7|pages=744–757|date=1965}}
  • {{cite journal|url=http://www.senckenberg.de/files/content/forschung/publikationen/soilorganisms/volume_86_1/2_86-1-04_zaitsev.pdf|title=Remarks on fauna and population of oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) in Priazovsky National Wildlife Sanctuary (Southern Russia)|author1=Andrey S. Zaitsev|author2=Natalia B. Pystina|via=Naturmuseum Senckenberg|journal=Soil Organisms|volume=86|number=1|pages=59–66|date=April 2014|issn=1864-6417}}

External links

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  • {{Faunaeur|54074|Belbidae}} – Family of the genus Belba
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20141013104445/https://insects.tamu.edu/research/collection/hallan/Acari/Family/Damaeidae.txt Damaeidae Species Listing] in [http://insects.tamu.edu/research/collection/hallan/ Joel Hallan's Biology Catalog] by Dr. Heinrich Schatz

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Category:Acari genera

Category:Taxa named by Carl von Heyden

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