Family ORIBATULIDAE Thor, 1929
- Crassoribatulinae Balogh, J. & Balogh, P. 1984. A review of the Oribatuloidea Thor, 1929 (Acari : Oribatei). Acta Zoologica Hungarica 30: 257-313.
Introduction
The family Oribatulidae is large, with 47 genera and about 300 species world-wide (Schatz et al. 2009). Colloff & Halliday (1998) placed some Australian genera in the family Crassoribatulidae, but those genera are here included in the Oribatulidae. The classification of these and some other related genera is still somewhat unstable (Norton & Behan-Pelletier 2009). The family is cosmopolitan, but appears to be most diverse in the Neotropical Region. The Australian fauna includes nine genera and 20 species, including four genera that are known only from unidentified species. Unidentified species have also been recorded in some of the other genera, and unidentified Oribatulidae were also reported by Heatwole et al. (1981), Stone & Simpson (1990), O'Dowd et al. (1991), Proctor et al (2002), Callan et al. (2011), Osler & Murphy (2005), Beyer et al. (2011), Majer et al. (2013) and Walter & Stirling (2018).
General References
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
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
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.
Norton, R.A. & Behan-Pelletier, V.M. 2009. Suborder Oribatida. pp. 430–564 in Krantz, G.W. & Walter, D.E. (eds). A Manual of Acarology. Lubbock, Texas : Texas Tech University Press Third edition, 807 pp.
O'Dowd, D.J., Brew, C.R., Christophel, D.C. & Norton, R.A. 1991. Mite-plant associations from the Eocene of southern Australia. Science (Washington, D.C.) 252: 99-101
Osler, G.H.R. & Murphy, D.V. 2005. Oribatid mite species richness and soil organic matter fractions in agriculturall and native vegetation soils in Western Australia. Applied Soil Ecology 29: 93–98
Proctor, H.C., Montgomery, K.M., Rosen, K.E. & Kitching, R.L. 2002. Are tree trunks habitats or highways? A comparison of oribatid mite assemblages from hoop-pine bark and litter. Australian Journal of Entomology 41: 294–299
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.
Stone, C. & Simpson, J.A. 1990. Species associations in Ips grandicollis galleries in Pinus taeda. New Zealand Journal of Forestry Science 20: 75-96.
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.
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05-Dec-2019 | Acari | 07-Aug-2019 | MODIFIED | Dr Bruce Halliday |
| 01-May-2017 | Acari | 19-Jan-2017 | MODIFIED | Dr Bruce Halliday |
| 07-May-2013 | 07-May-2013 | MODIFIED | ||
| 07-May-2013 | 07-Aug-2012 | MOVED | ||
| 07-May-2013 | 28-Jul-2010 | MOVED | ||
| 07-May-2013 | 28-Jul-2010 | MOVED | ||
| 08-Jul-2010 | MODIFIED |