Genus Cosmochthonius Berlese, 1910
- Cosmochthonius Berlese, A. 1910. Acari nuovi. Manipulus V, VI. Redia. Giornale di entomologia, Firenze 6: 199-234 pls XVIII-XXI.
Introduction
In addition to the named species listed here, unidentified species of Cosmochthonius have been reported from Australia by Springett (1979), Heatwole et al. (1981) and Noble et al. (1990) (as Cosmochtonus, sic), Walter (1995), Noble et al. (1996a, 1996b), Colloff & Halliday (1998), Kinnear & Tongway (2004), Adolphson & Kinnear (2008) and Beyer et al. (2011).
General References
Adolphson, H. & Kinnear, A. 2008. Acari (mite) assemblages under plantations of bluegum, Eucalyptus globulus, in southwestern Australia. Pedobiologia 51: 427–437
Beyer, S., Kinnear, A., Hutley, L.B., McGuiness, K. & Gibb, K. 2011. Assessing the relationship between fire and grazing on soil characteristics and mite communities in a semi-arid savanna of northern Australia. Pedobiologia 54: 195–200
Kinnear, A. & Tongway, D. 2004. Grazing impacts on soil mites of semi-arid chenopod shrublands in Western Australia. Journal of Arid Environments 56: 63–82
Noble, J.C., Kaliszewski, M. & Whitford, W.G. 1990. Soil Acari from burnt and unburnt mallee habitats in western New South Wales. pp. 224-225 in Noble, J.C., Joss, P.J. & Jones, G.K. (eds). The Mallee Lands: A Conservation Perspective. Melbourne : CSIRO Publications.
Noble, J.C., Tongway, D.J., Roper, M.M. & Whitford, W.G. 1996a. Fire studies in mallee (Eucalyptus spp.) communities of western New South Wales: spatial and temporal fluxes in soil chemistry and soil biology following prescribed fire. Pacific Conservation Biology 2: 398-413
Noble, J.C., Whitford, W.G. & Kaliszewski, M. 1996b. Soil and litter microarthropod populations from two contrasting ecosystems in semi-arid eastern Australia. Journal of Arid Environments 32: 329-346
Springett, J.A. 1979. The effects of a single hot summer fire on soil fauna and on litter decomposition in jarrah (Eucalyptus marginata) forest in Western Australia. Australian Journal of Ecology 4: 279-291
Walter, D.E. 1995. Dancing on the head of a pin: mites in the rainforest canopy. pp. 49-53 in M.S. Harvey (ed.). Australasian Spiders and their Relatives: Papers Honouring Barbara York Main. Records of the Western Australian Museum 52(Supplement)
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