Family EPILOHMANNIIDAE Oudemans, 1923

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• Epilohmanniidae Oudemans, A.C. 1923. Studie over de sedert 1877 ontwerpen Systemen der Acari; Nieuwe Classificatie; Phylogenetische Beschouwingen. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 66: 49-85.

Introduction

The family Epilohmanniidae includes three genera and 59 species world-wide (Schatz et al. 2011). The most recent major taxonomic work on the family was by Shtanchaeva (1996). The family is cosmopolitan, with high levels of diversity in tropical Africa, South America, and southeast Asia. These mites are usually found in soil in grassland and forest, but some species burrow in decaying wood (Norton & Behan-Pelletier 2009). The Australian fauna includes two named species of Epilohmannia, both of which are virtually cosmopolitan, and both of which have a series of subspecies and synonyms (Subias 2011), as well as an unidentified species in the same genus. The Australian specimens were collected in moss, litter and soil under sclerophyll forest and scrub (Colloff & Halliday 1998), and in soil under sugar cane (Walter & Stirling, 2018).

General References

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

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.

Shtanchaeva, U.Y. 1996. The world fauna of oribatid mites of the family Epilohmanniidae. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 75: 516-532

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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