Family CALOPPIIDAE Balogh, 1960

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• Caloppiidae Balogh, J. 1960. Descriptions complémentaires d'Oribates (Acari) d'Angola et du Congo Belge (Ière série). Publicaçoes Culturais da Companhia de Diamantes de Angola 51: 87–106.

Introduction

The family Caloppiidae includes nine genera and 33 species world-wide (Schatz et al. 2011). The family is most diverse in the Oriental Region, but also occurs in Africa, South America, and the Pacific islands (data from Subias 2011). The family is known from Australia only on the basis of unidentified species of Brassiella, as reported from an unknown locality by Balogh & Balogh (1984) and by Walter (1999) from leaves of a rainforest tree in Queensland.

General References

Balogh, J. & Balogh, P. 1984. A review of the Oribatuloidea Thor, 1929 (Acari : Oribatei). Acta Zoologica Hungarica 30: 257-313

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. 1999. Living on leaves: adaptations of Australian rainforest mites. pp. 73–78 in Needham, G.R., Mitchell, R., Horn, D.J. & Welbourn, W.C. Acarology IX. Volume 2. Symposia. Columbus, Ohio : Ohio Biological Survey.

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