Family FRONTIPODOPSIDAE Viets, 1931

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• Frontipodopsinae Viets, K. 1931. Über einige Gattungen und Arten der Axonopsae, Mideopsae und Arrhenurae (Hydracarina). Zoologischer Anzeiger 93: 33-48.

Introduction

The Frontipodopsidae is a small family of water mites that includes one genus in the Southern Hemisphere and one in the Northern Hemisphere (Walter et al. 2009). The Australian fauna includes only three species in one genus, all described by Cook (1986). They are found in interstitial water in eastern Australia. The fauna was catalogued by Viets (1987) and reviewed by Harvey (1998). Nothing is known of their biology, except for the presumption that the nymphs and adults are probably predatory, and the larvae are probably parasites of some group of aquatic insects.

General References

Cook, D.R. 1986. Water mites from Australia. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 40: 1-568

Harvey, M.S. 1998. The Australian Water Mites. A Guide to the Families and Genera. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing 150 pp.

Viets, K.O. 1987. Die Milben des Süsswassers (Hydrachnellae und Halacaridae (Part.), Acari). 2. Katalog. Berlin : Paul Parey 1012 pp.

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.

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