Family DAMAEOLIDAE Grandjean, 1965

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• Damaeolidae Grandjean, F. 1965. Complément a mon travail de 1953 sur la classification des Oribates. Acarologia 7: 713-734.

Introduction

In the classification of Schatz et al. (2011), the family Damaeolidae includes five genera and 15 species world-wide. None of the genera is diverse, but collectively they are cosmopolitan (Subias 2011). The Australian fauna includes only a single identified species, which is known from a single locality in coastal scrubland in South Australia. This species has been the subject of considerable taxonomic and nomenclatural confusion, as reviewed by Colloff & Halliday (1998), and has an extensive synonymy, as listed by Subias (2011). Another unidentified species has been collected in New South Wales (Osler 1997).

General References

Colloff, M.J. & Halliday, R.B. 1998. Oribatid Mites: A Catalogue of the Australian Genera and Species. Melbourne : CSIRO Publications.

Osler, G.H.R. 1997. Factors Contributing to the Structure of Soil Mite Communities. PhD thesis, Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University. 212 pp.

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]

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