Family DISCOURELLIDAE Baker & Wharton, 1952

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Regional Maps

• Discourellidae Baker, E.W. & Wharton, G.W. 1952. An Introduction to Acarology. New York : MacMillan 465 pp.

Introduction

The cosmopolitan family Discourellidae as used here includes about 80 species. Hirschmann & Wisniewski (1993) placed all the species in the single genus Discourella. They arranged the species in a series of species groups, which were previously treated as genera or subgenera. Discourellids are found in soil, leaf litter, rotting wood, straw, dung, and moss (Hirschmann & Wisniewski 1993). The European fauna was reviewed by Karg (1989) and Mašán (2001). The family is known from Australia only from a single highly ornamented species described from a forest site near Canberra (Hiramatsu 1983).

General References

Hiramatsu, N. 1983. Gangsystematik der Parasitiformes. Teil 440. Stadien von 3 neuen Discourella-Arten aus Kuba, Australien und Japan (Uropodini, Uropodinae). Acarologie. Schriftenreihe für Vergleichende Milbenkunde 30: 147-151

Hirschmann, W. & Wisniewski, J. 1993. Acari Parasitiformes. Supercohors Atrichopygidiina Hirschmann 1975. Die Uropodiden der Erde. Acarologie. Schriftenreihe für Vergleichende Milbenkunde 40: 1-466

Karg, W. 1989. Acari (Acarina), Milben, Unterordnung Parasitiformes (Anactinochaeta). Uropodina Kramer, Schildkrötenmilben. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands und der angrenzenden Meeresteile 67: 1–203

Mašán, P. 2001. Mites of the Cohort Uropodina (Acarina, Mesostigmata) in Slovakia. Annotationes Zoologicae et Botanicae, Bratislava 223: 1–320

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