Pieter D. Theron

Pieter Daniel Theron, South African acarologist

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Theron, P.D., Meyer, M.K.P. & Ryke, P.A.J. 1970. Two new genera of the family Paratydeidae (Acari: Prostigmata) from South African soils. Acarologia 11: 697–710. Reference page.

Omukunda, E., Theron, P.D. & Ueckermann, E.A. 2012. Spinibdella Thor (Acari: Bdellidae) from southern Africa: descriptions of five new species and the redescription of S. thori (Meyer & Ryke). Zootaxa 3304: 1–24. Preview Reference page.

Fernandez, N. & Theron, P.D. 2016. Two new oribatid mites from the Republic of Rwanda. Plasmobates zarae sp. n. (Acari, Plasmobatidae) and Basilobelba spasmenosi sp. n. (Acari, Basilobelbidae). ZooKeys 598: 1–25. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.598.8972. Reference page.
Fernandez, N., Theron, P.D. & Leiva, S. 2016. Revision of the family Carabodidae (Acari, Oribatida) V. Fourth part. Two new species of the genus Congocepheus from the Republic of Rwanda: Congocepheus rwandensis sp. n., and Congocepheus kayoveae sp. n. ZooKeys 556: 19–41. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.556.7011. Reference page.

Ermilov, S.G., Hugo-Coetzee, E.A., Theron, P.D. & Behan-Pelletier, V.M. 2017. Contribution to the knowledge of the oribatid mite family Nesozetidae (Acari, Oribatida). Zootaxa 4358(2): 311–327. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4358.2.5 Reference page.
Fernandez, N., Theron, P., Leiva, S. & Tiedt, L. 2017. Two new Oribatid mites from Costa Rica, Mixacarus turialbaiensis sp. n. and Paulianacarus costaricensis sp. n. (Acari, Oribatida, Lohmanniidae). ZooKeys 680: 33—56. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.680.13213. Reference page.
Fernandez, N., Theron, P.D., Leiva, S. & Tiedt, L. 2017. Revision of the family Carabodidae (Acari, Oribatida) XII. Yoshiobodes camerunensis sp. n. and Rugocepheus costaricensis sp. n. ZooKeys 706: 31—50. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.706.14807. Reference page.

Fernandez, N., Theron, P.D. & Leiva, S. 2018. Two new species of the family Nippobodidae (Acari, Oribatida), including a description of the leg-folding process. ZooKeys 781: 109–139. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.781.27389 Reference page.
Fernandez, N., Theron, P., Leiva, S. & Jordaan, A. 2018. The family Lohmanniidae (Acari, Oribatida) II: two new Oribatid mites, Meristacarus perikopesis sp. n. from Costa Rica and Torpacarus eidikoterai sp. n. from Kenya. ZooKeys 743: 43–66. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.743.22815. Reference page.
Fernandez, N., Theron, P., Leiva, S. & Jordaan, A. 2018. Revision of the family Carabodidae (Acari: Oribatida) XVI. Synkrotima tsalakpmenoi sp. nov. from Zimbabwe and Kenya, and Congocepheus thailandae sp. nov. from Thailand, including a complementary study of Cavaecarabodes hauseri (Mahunka 1989). Zootaxa 4504(3): 371–389. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4504.3.4 Reference page.

Khaustov, A.A., Hugo-Coetzee, E.A., Ermilov, S.G. & Theron, P.D. 2019. A new genus and species of the family Microdispidae (Acari: Heterostigmata) associated with Trinervitermes trinervoides (Sjostedt) (Isoptera: Termitidae) from South Africa. Pp 104–114 In Zhang, Z-Q., Pfingstl, T., Norton, R., Mironov, S.V. & Seeman, O.D. (eds.). Systematic acarology and palaeoacarology: a special volume in memory of Ekaterina Alekseevna Sidorchuk (1981–2019). Zootaxa 1–505. Reference page. Zootaxa 4647(1): 104–114. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4647.1.10 Reference page.