Family AMERIDAE Grandjean, 1965

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• Ameridae Grandjean, F. 1965. Complément a mon travail de 1953 sur la classification des Oribates. Acarologia 7: 713-734.

Introduction

In the classification of Schatz et al. (2011), the family Ameridae includes 7 genera and 37 species world-wide. The family is cosmopolitan, but none of the genera is very diverse. The known species occur in forest and grassland litter, and there is some evidence that they may feed on nematodes (Norton & Behan-Pelletier 2009). The Australian fauna includes only a single species, described from rainforest litter in Queensland and New South Wales (Balogh & Balogh 1983).

General References

Balogh, J. & Balogh, P. 1983. New Oribatid mites from Australia (Acari : Oribatei). Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungariae 29: 81-105

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.

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