Family ENIOCHTHONIIDAE Grandjean, 1947

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• Eniochthoniinae Grandjean, F. 1947. Les Enarthronota (Acariens). Première série. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie 11 8: 213-248.

Introduction

The family Eniochthoniidae is small, with only one genus and seven species world-wide (Schatz et al. 2011). Subias (2011) referred to the single genus as Hypochthoniella, but Marshall et al. (1987) have explained why Eniochthonius is the correct name for this genus. The Australian fauna includes only one identified species, Eniochthonius minutissimus (Berlese), which is cosmopolitan in forest soil (Norton & Behan-Pelletier 2009). In Australia it has been been found in litter and grass under Acacia and Eucalyptus at a number of localities in South Australia. There are also several records of unidentified species of Eniochthonius from other localities, as reviewed by Colloff & Halliday (1998).

General References

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

Marshall, V.G., Reeves, R.M. & Norton, R.A. 1987. Catalogue of the Oribatida (Acari) of continental United States and Canada. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada 139: 1-418

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.

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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