Family ADHAESOZETIDAE Hammer, 1973

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• Adhaesozetidae Hammer, M. 1973. Oribatids from Tongatapu and Eua, the Tonga Islands, and from Upolu, Western Samoa. Biologiske Skrifter Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab 20(3): 1-70 pls I-XXIX.

Introduction

The family Adhaesozetidae includes two genera and four species that occur in Australasia and Japan (Norton & Behan-Pelletier 2009; Schatz et al. 2011). All the species appear to be arboreal on deciduous trees, and seem to occur preferentially on plants with hairy leaves. Both genera and three of the four known species occur in Australia. The most important recent taxonomic work on the family was by Behan-Pelletier & Walter (2007), who described one of the genera and two of the known species, from leaves and twigs of trees at several sites in eastern Australia. The placement of the family Adhaesozetidae in the Licneremaeoidea remains provisional, and was not accepted by Subias (2011).

General References

Behan-Pelletier, V.M. & Walter, D.E. 2007. Phylleremus n. gen., from leaves of deciduous trees in eastern Australia (Oribatida: Licneremaeoidea). Zootaxa 1386: 1–17

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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