Family CAMEROBIIDAE Southcott, 1957

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• Camerobiidae Southcott, R.V. 1957. Description of a new Australian Raphignathoid mite, with remarks on the classification of the Trombidiformes (Acarina). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 81: 306-312.
• Neophyllobiidae Southcott, R.V. 1957. Description of a new Australian Raphignathoid mite, with remarks on the classification of the Trombidiformes (Acarina). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 81: 306-312.

Introduction

The family Camerobiidae includes about 140 species in seven genera. These mites are long-legged predators that occur on trees and grass. They feed on other mites and small soft-bodied insects such as scale insect crawlers (Walter et al. 2009). The classification of the family was thoroughly reviewed by Fan & Walter (2011), and the most important work on the Australian fauna was by Fan & Walter (2006). Four of the seven known genera have been recorded from Australia. Of the nine known Australian species, seven have been described since 2006, suggesting that a much bigger fauna remains unrecognised. Unidentified species have been recorded from Australia a number of times as listed for each genus, and unidentified Camerobiidae were also reported by Adolphson & Kinnear (2008), Callan et al. (2011) and Majer et al (2013).

General References

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

Callan, S.K., Majer, J.D., Edwards, K. & Moro, D. 2011. Documenting the terrestrial invertebrate fauna of Barrow Island, Western Australia. Australian Journal of Entomology 50: 323–343

Fan, Q.-H. & Walter, D.E. 2006. Camerobia and Neophyllobius (Acari: Prostigmata: Camerobiidae) from Australia, with the descriptions of two new species. Zootaxa 1309: 1–23

Fan, Q.-H. & Walter, D.E. 2011. Acamerobia inflatus gen. n. & sp. n. from Australia (Acari: Prostigmata: Raphignathoidea: Camerobiidae) with notes on the idiosomal chaetotaxy. Zootaxa 3045: 45–56

Majer, J.D., Callan, S.K., Edwards, K., Gunawardene, N.R. & Taylor, C.K. 2013. Baseline survey of the terrestrial invertebrate fauna of Barrow Island. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 83: 13-112.

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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