Family ADAMYSTIDAE Cunliffe, 1957

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• Adamystinae Cunliffe, F. 1957. Notes on the Anystidae with a description of a new genus and species Adamystis donnae and a new subfamily, Adamystinae (Acarina). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 59: 172–175.

Introduction

Adamystidae is a cosmpolitan family of 20 species in two genera. They are described as reddish in colour, medium-sized and fast moving species that are mostly found in soil and leaf litter and under rocks, but some species are arboreal. They are believed to predatory, but some species may be microphages. The systematics and biology of the family were reviewed by Fuangarworn & Lekprayoon (2010). The family is known from Australia only from a report of an unidentified species of Adamystidae by Walter & O'Dowd (1995) and Majer et al. (2013), and an unidentified species of Adamystis illustrated by Walter et al. (2009).

General References

Fuangarworn, M. & Lekprayoon, C. 2010. Adamystis thailandensis sp. nov. (Acari: Prostigmata: Adamystidae), a new species of soil mites from Thailand with a key to world species of Adamystidae. Zootaxa 2649: 61–68

Majer, J.D., Callan, S.K., Edwards, K., Gunawardene, N.R. & Taylor, C.K. 2013. Baseline survey of the terrestrial invertebrate fauna of Barrow Island. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 83: 13-112.

Walter, D.E., Lindquist, E.E., Smith, I.M., Cook, D.R. & Krantz, G.W. 2009. Order Trombidiformes. pp. 233-420 in Krantz, G.W. & Walter, D.E. (eds). A Manual of Acarology. Lubbock, Texas : Texas Tech University Press Third edition, 807 pp.

Walter, D.E. & O'Dowd, D.J. 1995. Life on the forest phylloplane: Hairs, little houses, and myriad mites. pp. 325–351 in Lowman, M.D. & Nadkarni, N.M. Forest Canopies. San Diego : Academic Press.

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