Family EUTEGAEIDAE Balogh, 1965

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• Eutegaeidae Balogh, J. 1965. A synopsis of the world oribatid (Acari) genera. Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungariae 11: 5-99.
• Pterozetidae Luxton, M. 1988. A new mite superfamily (Acari : Cryptostigmata). Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 93: 71-91.

Introduction

The family Eutegaeidae includes 10 genera and 32 species world-wide (Schatz et al. 2011). The family placement of some of the genera has been unstable (Norton & Behan-Pelletier 2009). The Australian Eutegeidae are poorly known, with only one known species in each of five genera. The most important contribution to this fauna was by Balogh & Balogh (1983a, 1983b), who described three of the five known species, from rainforest litter in New South Wales. Unidentified species have been recorded from Australia a number of times as listed for each genus, and unidentified Eutegeidae were also reported by Malipatil & Blyth (1982) and Perdomo et al. (2012).

General References

Balogh, J. & Balogh, P. 1983a. Data to the Oribatid fauna of Australia (Acari). II. Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungariae 29: 283-301

Balogh, J. & Balogh, P. 1983b. New Oribatid mites from Australia (Acari : Oribatei). Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungariae 29: 81-105

Malipatil, M.B. & Blyth, J.D. 1982. A qualitative study of the macroinvertebrate fauna of the Thomson River and its major tributaries, Gippsland, Victoria. Reports of the National Museum of Victoria 1: 1-95

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.

Perdomo, G., Evans, A., Maraun, M., Sunnucks, P. & Thompson, R. 2012. Mouthpart morphology and trophic position of microarthropods from soils and mosses are strongly correlated. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 53: 56–63

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.

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