Family MACRODINYCHIDAE Kontschán, 2017
Introduction
Hirschmann (1979) used the name Macrodinychidae for this family, but did not provide a description or any means of defining the family. Farrier & Hennessey (1993) and Halliday (1998) used the name Macrodinychidae, also without any diagnosis. Kontschán (2011) used the name Macrodinychidae, and provided a diagnosis and type genus designation by monotypy, but he attributed the family name to Hirschmann (1979) and did not state that it was a new name. The name Macrodinychidae was finally made available by Kontschán (2017).
The family includes the genus Macrodinychus, which was reviewed by Kontschán (2011, 2017), but the status of several other genus-level taxa in this family has not been resolved. Hirschmann & Wisniewski (1993) arranged the species of Macrodinychus in a series of species groups, which have sometimes been treated as genera or subgenera. There are 22 species, recorded from Africa, Central and South America, the Caribbean, southeast Asia, Europe, Russia, Japan, Australia, and several Pacific islands. They are found in soil and litter, and occasionally associated with ants or termites. The Australian fauna includes only two species.
General References
Farrier, M.H. & Hennessey, M.K. 1993. Soil-inhabiting and free-living Mesostigmata (Acari-Parasitiformes) from North America. An annotated checklist with bibliography and index. North Carolina Agricultural Research Service Technical Bulletin 303: 1-408
Halliday, R.B. 2016. Catalogue of families and their type genera in the mite suborder Uropodina (Acari: Mesostigmata). Zootaxa 4061(4): 347-366.
Hirschmann, W. 1979. Stadiensystematik der Parasitiformes. Teil 1. Stadienfamilien und Stadiengattungen der Atrichopygidiina, erstellt im Vergleich zum Gangsystem Hirschmann 1979. Acarologie. Schriftenreihe für Vergleichende Milbenkunde 26: 57-70
Hirschmann, W. & Wisniewski, J. 1993. Acari Parasitiformes. Supercohors Atrichopygidiina Hirschmann 1975. Die Uropodiden der Erde. Acarologie. Schriftenreihe für Vergleichende Milbenkunde 40: 1-466
Kontschán, J. 2011. Notes on the family Macrodinychidae (Acari: Uropodina) with description of two new species. Journal of Natural History 45: 1619–1636
Kontschán, J. 2017. Macrodinychus tanduk sp. nov., an unusual new macrodinychid species from Sumatra, Indonesia (Mesostigmata Uropodina), with notes on the Macrodinychidae fam. nov. Systematic and Applied Acarology 22: 1267–1276.
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05-Dec-2019 | Acari | 22-Sep-2019 | MODIFIED | Dr Bruce Halliday |
| 01-May-2017 | Acari | 29-Jan-2017 | MODIFIED | Dr Bruce Halliday |
| 07-May-2013 | 07-May-2013 | MODIFIED | ||
| 09-Nov-2011 | ADDED |