Family CALYPTOSTOMATIDAE Oudemans, 1923

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• Calyptostomidae Oudemans, A.C. 1923. Studie over de sedert 1877 ontwerpen Systemen der Acari; Nieuwe Classificatie; Phylogenetische Beschouwingen. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 66: 49-85.

Introduction

Members of this little-known family have predatory adults that occur in wet litter and moss, and larvae that are parasites of aquatic insects (Walter et al., 2009). The single known genus includes only a few species. Most are known from Europe, with some records from Africa and North America. Wainstein (1977) reviewed the species known to that date. The Australian fauna of Calyptostomatidae includes two species from Queensland, both of which are inadequately described and may be misidentified. Maķol & Wohltmann (2012) catalogued the world fauna and recorded the Malaysian species C. latiseta Shiba, 1976 from Tasmania.

General References

Mąkol, J. & Wohltmann, A. 2012. An annotated checklist of terrestrial Parasitengona (Actinotrichida: Prostigmata) of the world, excluding Trombiculidae and Walchiidae. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 62: 359–562

Shiba, M. 1976. Taxonomic investigation on free-living Prostigmata from the Malay Peninsula. Nature and Life in Southeast Asia 7: 83–299

Wainstein, B.A. 1977. The genus Calyptostoma (Acariformes, Calyptostomidae). Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 56: 158–161

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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