Family EREMULIDAE Grandjean, 1965

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• Eremulidae 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 Eremulidae includes four genera and 53 species world-wide. Most of the known species are placed in the genus Eremulus, which is very widespread in tropical and temperate parts of the world. The Australian fauna is very poorly known, with only a single identified species from South Australia, which itself appears to be cosmopolitan (Subias 2004, 2011). There are also isolated records of a second species in New South Wales and Queensland, which remains unidentified (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.

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]

Subias, L.S. 2004. Listado sistemático, sinonímico y biogeográfico de los ácaros oribátidos (Acariformes, Oribatida) del mundo (1758-2002). Graellsia 60 (Supplement): 3–305

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