Family ACHIPTERIIDAE Thor, 1929

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Regional Maps

• Achipteriidae Thor, S. 1929. Über die Phylogenie und Systematik der Acarina, mit Beiträgen zur esrten Entwicklungsgeschichte einzelner Gruppen. Nyt Magazin for Naturvidenskaberne, Oslo 67: 145-210 pls I-X.
• Austrachipteriidae Luxton, M. 1985. Cryptostigmata (Arachnida: Acari) - a concise review. Fauna of New Zealand 7: 1-106.

Introduction

In the classification of Schatz et al. (2011), the family Achipteriidae includes 15 genera and 117 species world-wide. The Australian fauna is poorly known, and includes only four species in a single genus. The most recent work on the Australian fauna was by Balogh & Balogh (1983), who described three of the four known species, from rainforest litter in northern New South Wales. The family Achipteriidae is also known from Australia on the basis of unidentified species, as reported by Beyer et al. (2011).

General References

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

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

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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