Family ATHIENEMANNIIDAE Viets, 1922

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• A-Thienemanniinae Viets, K. 1922. Hydracarinen aus Quellen in den Weserbergen (Vogler und Ith). Archiv für Naturgeschichte Series A 88: 53-76 + Pls 1-2 [original spelling].
• Athienmanniidae Viets, K. 1922. Hydracarinen aus Quellen in den Weserbergen (Vogler und Ith). Archiv für Naturgeschichte Series A 88: 53-76 + Pls 1-2 [emendation].

Introduction

The Athienmanniidae are heavily sclerotised and dorso-ventrally flattened water mites (Walter et al. 2009). The known Australian fauna is small, with only five species in four genera. The adults occur in gravel and silt in the beds of fresh water streams, and are described as interstitial or hyporheic in habit (Harvey 1998). The largest single work on Australian water mites is by Cook (1986), the world fauna was catalogued by Viets (1987), and the Australian fauna was reviewed by Harvey (1998), but more species in this family have been described after 1999 (Harvey 2003; Smit 2007).

General References

Cook, D.R. 1986. Water mites from Australia. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 40: 1-568

Harvey, M.S. 1998. The Australian Water Mites. A Guide to the Families and Genera. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 150 pp.

Harvey, M.S. 2003. Davecookia, a new genus of the water mite family Athienemanniidae (Acarina: Hydracarina) from Australia. pp. 151–153 in Smith, I.M. An Acarological Tribute to David R. Cook (From Yankee Springs to Wheeny Creek). West Bloomfield, Michigan : Indira Publishing House.

Smit, H. 2007. New records of hyporheic water mites from Australia, with a description of two new genera and ten new species (Acari: Hydrachnidia). Records of the Australian Museum 59: 97–116

Viets, K.O. 1987. Die Milben des Süsswassers (Hydrachnellae und Halacaridae (Part.), Acari). 2. Katalog. Berlin : Paul Parey 1012 pp.

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.

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