Genus Cheiroseius Berlese, 1916

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• Cheiroseius Berlese, A. 1916. Centuria prima di Acari nuovi. Redia. Giornale di entomologia, Firenze 12: 19-67 [introduced as a subgenus of Lasioseius].

Introduction

Some of the literature about species in this genus this can be found under the genus name Sejus Koch. This is based on early confusion about the type species of Sejus. See Lindquist & Evans (1965) for more details.

Unidentified species of Cheiroseius were recorded from Australia by Kitching & Callaghan (1982), Kitching & Pimm (1985), Harvey et al. (1993), Fashing (1998), Proctor et al. (2011), Manwaring et al. (2015, 2018) and Walter & Stirling (2018). Halliday et al (1998) reported the presence of at least six unidentified species in Australia.

General References

Fashing, N.J. 1998. Functional morphology as an aid in determining trophic behaviour: the placement of astigmatic mites in food webs of water-filled tree-hole communities. Experimental and Applied Acarology 22: 435-453

Halliday, R.B., Walter, D.E. & Lindquist, E.E. 1998. Revision of the Australian Ascidae (Acarina: Mesostigmata). Invertebrate Taxonomy 12: 1-54

Harvey, M.S., Gray, M.R., Hunt, G.S. & Lee, D.C. 1993. The cavernicolous Arachnida and Myriapoda of Cape Range, Western Australia. pp. 129-144 in Humphreys, W.F. The Biogeography of Cape Range Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 45(Supplement)

Kitching, R.L. & Callaghan, C. 1982. The fauna of water-filled tree holes in box forest in south-east Queensland. Australian Entomological Magazine 8: 61-70

Kitching, R.L. & Pimm, S.L. 1985. The length of food chains: phytotelmata in Australia and elsewhere. Proceedings of the Ecological Society of Australia 14: 123-140

Lindquist, E.E. & Evans, G.O. 1965. Taxonomic concepts in the Ascidae, with a modified setal nomenclature for the idiosoma of the Gamasina (Acarina : Mesostigmata). Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada 47: 1-64

Manwaring, M., Wallace, H.M. & Weaver, H.J. 2018. Effects of a mulch layer on the assemblage and abundance of mesostigmatan mites and other arthropods in the soil of a sugarcane agro‑ecosystem in Australia. Experimental and Applied Acarology 74: 291-300.

Manwaring, M., Walter, D. & Stirling, G.R. 2015. Microarthropoda as predators of nematode pests in sugarcane soils: Literature review and preliminary studies. Proceedings of the Australian Society of Sugar Cane Technologists 37: 212-217.

Proctor, H., Kanowski, J., Catterall, C.P., Wardell-Johnson, G. & Reis, T. 2011. Rainforest-restoration success as judged by assemblages of soil- and litter-dwelling mites (Arachnida: Acari). Zoosymposia 6: 234–254

Walter, D.E. & Stirling, G.R. 2018. Microarthropods in Australian sugarcane soils: A survey with emphasis on the Mesostigmata as potential regulators of nematode populations. Acarologia 58: 673-682.

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