Family AUTOGNETIDAE Grandjean, 1960

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• Autognetidae Grandjean, F. 1960. Les Autognetidae n. fam. (Oribates). Acarologia 2: 575-609.

Introduction

The family Autognetidae includes nine genera and 30 species world-wide (Schatz et al. 2011). The catalogue of Subias (2011) shows that the family reaches its highest level of diversity in the Palaearctic and Nearctic Regions, with a few species in Asia, but has not been recorded in Africa. The single identified Australian species, Austrogneta multipilosa, occurs in moss and litter in sclerophyll forest, and has also been reported from New Zealand and Argentina (Colloff & Halliday 1998; Subias 2011). Unidentified species of Austrogenta have also been reported from Australia a number of times, and unidentified Autognetidae were also reported by Adolphson & Kinnear (2008) and Beyer et al. (2011).

General References

Adolphson, H. & Kinnear, A. 2008. Acari (mite) assemblages under plantations of bluegum, Eucalyptus globulus, in southwestern Australia. Pedobiologia 51: 427–437

Beyer, S., Kinnear, A., Hutley, L.B., McGuiness, K. & Gibb, K. 2011. Assessing the relationship between fire and grazing on soil characteristics and mite communities in a semi-arid savanna of northern Australia. Pedobiologia 54: 195–200

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]

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