Family ADELPHACARIDAE Grandjean, 1954

Museums

Regional Maps

• Adelphacarinae Grandjean, F. 1954. Etude sur les Palaeacaroides (Acariens, Oribates). Mémoires du Muséum nationale d'Histoire naturelle Series A (Zoologie) [1950-1992] 7: 179-274.

Introduction

The family Adelphacaridae includes only a single described species (Norton & Behan-Pelletier 2009; Schatz et al. 2011). Subias (2011) and some other authors treat this family as a synonym of Aphelacaridae. Adelphacarus sellnicki Grandjean, 1952 has been reported from Europe and Brazil (Subias 2011). The family is known from Australia only from a record of an unidentified species of Adelphacarus reported from Western Australia by Kinnear & Tongway (2004) (as Adelaphacarus, sic).

General References

Grandjean, F. 1952. Observations sur les Palaeacaroïdes (2e série). Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris [published 1907-1971] 24: 460–467

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

Norton, R.A. & Behan-Pelletier, V.M. 2009. Suborder Oribatida. pp. 430–564 in Krantz, G.W. & Walter, D.E. (eds). A Manual of Acarology. Lubbock, Texas : Texas Tech University Press Third edition, 807 pp.

Schatz, H., Behan-Pelletier, V.M., OConnor, B.M. & Norton, R.A. 2011. Suborder Oribatida van der Hammen, 1968. pp. 141–148 in Zhang, Z.-Q. Animal Biodiversity: An Outline of Higher-level Classification and Survey of Taxonomic Richness. Auckland : Magnolia Press.

Subias, L.S February 2011. Listado sistemático, sinonímico y biogeográfico de los ácaros oribátidos (Acariformes: Oribatida) del mundo (excepto fósiles). Departamento de Zoología, Facultad de Biología, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain. http://www.ucm.es/info/zoo/Artropodos/Catalogo.pdf [date of access 1 October 2011]

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