Family ARCHEONOTHRIDAE Grandjean, 1954

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• Archeonothrinae Grandjean, F. 1954. Essai de classification des Oribates (Acariens). Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 78: 421-446.

Introduction

The family Archeonothridae includes five genera and 20 species world-wide (Schatz et al. 2011). Subias (2011) and some other authors place all these genera in the family Acaronychidae. Colloff & Halliday (1998) placed Stomacarus in the Acaronychidae, but this genus is here placed in the Archeonothridae, following Norton & Behan-Pelletier (2009). The Archeonothridae is a Southern Hemisphere family, with species in Australia, South America, and the Subantarctic. The Australian fauna consists of two genera and three identified species that occur in forest litter, where they appear to be omnivorous, feeding on both plant and animal material (Walter & Proctor 1998). Unidentified species have also been recorded in both of the known genera.

General References

Colloff, M.J. & Halliday, R.B. 1998. Oribatid Mites: A Catalogue of the Australian Genera and Species. Melbourne : CSIRO Publications.

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]

Walter, D.E. & Proctor, H.C. 1998. Feeding behaviour and phylogeny: observations on early derivative Acari. Experimental and Applied Acarology 22: 39-50

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