Family ACARIDAE Latreille, 1802
- Acaridiae Latreille, P.A. 1802. Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière des Crustacés et des Insectes. Ouvrage faisant suite à l’histoire naturelle générale et particulière, composée par Leclerc de Buffon, et rédigée par C.S. Sonnini, membre de plusieurs sociétés savantes. Familles naturelles des genres. Tome troisième. Paris : F. Dufart xii + 13–467 + [1] pp. [An "X" (title page = 1802)].
- Tyroglyphidae Donnadieu, A.L. 1868. Recherches anatomiques et zoologiques sur le genre Trichdactyle. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Paris V 10: 69-85 pl. 1.
- Tyroglyphiens Donnadieu, A.L. 1868. Recherches anatomiques et zoologiques sur le genre Trichdactyle. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Paris V 10: 69-85 pl. 1.
- Tyrophagidae Oudemans, A.C. 1924. Acarologische aanteekeningen. LXXVI. Entomologische Berichten (Amsterdam) 6(139): 300-310.
Introduction
The family Acaridae is large and ecologically diverse. Some species are free-living in soil and litter, but most have formed varying degrees of association with vertebrate and invertebrate hosts, and share their nests and burrows. Many species occur in stored food, where they are often serious pests. Others are found in house dust, bee hives, mushroom cultures, ornamental bulbs, and decaying wood. The family includes the important stored food pests Acarus siro and Tyrophagus putrescentiae, and such species are often called cheese mites or flour mites. The non-feeding deutonymphal stage (hypopus) of many species of Acaridae may be found attached to insects. Most species appear to be fungivorous and saprophytic, but some are capable of feeding on nematodes or living plant tissue (OConnor, 2009). The Australian fauna includes 41 species in 19 genera. Many of these species are widespread or cosmopolitan, and have been dispersed by human activities.
Incompletely identified species have been recorded from Australia a number of times as listed for each genus, and unidentified Acaridae were also reported by Rayment (1954), Conroy et al. (1966), Springett (1979), Heatwole et al. (1981), Colloff et al. (1991), Noble et al. (1996a, 1996b), Frost & Bailey (1997), Walter (1999), Seeman & Miller (2002), Philips (2009), Hodgkin et al (2010), Proctor et al. (2011) and Yousuf et al. (2014).
General References
Colloff, M.J., Stewart, G.A. & Thompson, P.J. 1991. House dust acarofauna and Der p I equivalent in Australia : the relative importance of Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus and Euroglyphus maynei. Clinical and Experimental Allergy 21: 225-230
Conroy, R.J., Darley, E.C. & Shanahan, G.J. 1966. Mushroom Culture. NSW Department of Agriculture Bulletin 17: 1-64
Hodgkin, L.K., Elgar, M.A. & Symonds, M.R.E. 2010. Positive and negative effects of phoretic mites on the reproductive output of an invasive bark beetle. Australian Journal of Zoology 58: 198–204
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
OConnor, B.M. 2009. Cohort Astigmatina. pp. 565–657 in Krantz, G.W. & Walter, D.E. (eds). A Manual of Acarology. Lubbock, Texas : Texas Tech University Press Third edition, 807 pp.
Philips, J.R. 2009. The mite (Acarina) fauna of trogid beetles (Coleoptera: Trogidae). International Journal of Acarology 35: 1-17
Proctor, H., Kanowski, J., Catterall, C.P., Wardell-Johnson, G. & Reis, T. 2011. Rainforest-restoration success as judged by assemblages of soil- and litter-dwelling mites (Arachnida: Acari). Zoosymposia 6: 234–254
Rayment, T. 1954. Incidence of acarid mites on the biology of bees. The Australian Zoologist 12: 26-38
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. 1999. Living on leaves: adaptations of Australian rainforest mites. pp. 73–78 in Needham, G.R., Mitchell, R., Horn, D.J. & Welbourn, W.C. Acarology IX. Volume 2. Symposia. Columbus, Ohio : Ohio Biological Survey.
Yousuf, F., Gurr, G., Carnegie, A.J., Bedding, R.A., Bashford, R. & Gitau, C. 2014. Biology of the bark beetle Ips grandicollis Eichoff (Coleoptera: Scolytinae) and its arthropod, nematode and microbial associates: a review of management opportunities from Australia. Austral Entomology 53: 298-316.
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01-May-2017 | Acari | 22-Jan-2017 | MODIFIED | Dr Bruce Halliday |
| 07-May-2013 | 07-May-2013 | MODIFIED | ||
| 07-May-2013 | 07-Aug-2012 | MOVED | ||
| 07-May-2013 | 29-Jul-2010 | MOVED | ||
| 07-May-2013 | 28-Jul-2010 | MOVED | ||
| 07-May-2013 | 28-Jul-2010 | MOVED | ||
| 07-May-2013 | 26-Jul-2010 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |