Family DASYTHYREIDAE Walter & Gerson, 1998

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• Dasythyreidae Walter, D.E. & Gerson, U. 1998. Dasythyreidae, new family, and Xanthodasythyreus n. g. (Acari: Prostigmata: Raphignathoidea) from Australia. International Journal of Acarology 24: 189-197.

Introduction

The Dasythyreidae is a small and little-known family of Raphignathoidea that occur under bark and in soil in USA, Russia, and Australia. Three species are known in two genera (Walter & Gerson 1998; Khaustov & Abramov 2010). They appear to be phoretic on corticolous insects (Walter et al. 2009; Khaustov & Abramov 2010), but nothing else is known of their biology. The family is represented in Australia by a single species Xanthodasythyreus toohey, described from soil and litter in Brisbane. Proctor et al. (2011) recorded an unidentified species of Xanthodasythyraeus.

General References

Khaustov, A.A. & Abramov, V.V. 2010. First record of mite family Dasythyreidae (Acari: Raphignathoidea) from Europe with description of a new species of the genus Dasythyreus from European part of Russia. Acarina. Russian Journal of Acarology 18: 265–268

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., 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.

Walter, D.E. & Gerson, U. 1998. Dasythyreidae, new family, and Xanthodasythyreus n. g. (Acari: Prostigmata: Raphignathoidea) from Australia. International Journal of Acarology 24: 189-197

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