Family HAPLOCHTHONIIDAE Van der Hammen, 1959

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• Haplochthoniidae Hammen, L. van der 1959. Berlese's primitive oribatid mites. Zoologische Verhandelingen (Leiden) 40: 1-93.

Introduction

The Haplochthoniidae is a small family, with three genera and 15 species world-wide (Schatz et al. 2011). Their feeding behaviour is unknown (Norton & Behan-Pelletier 2009). The family is known from Australia on the basis of one identified species of Amnemochthonius and several records of unidentified species of Haplochthonius, all from soil and litter in semi-arid habitats (Kinnear 1991; Noble et al. 1996; Colloff & Halliday 1998; Norton & Kinnear 1999; Adolphson & Kinnear 2008).

General References

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

Kinnear, A. 1991. Acarine communities of semi-arid soils from the the Eastern Goldfields region of Western Australia. Pedobiologia 35: 273-283

Noble, J.C., Whitford, W.G. & Kaliszewski, M. 1996. Soil and litter microarthropod populations from two contrasting ecosystems in semi-arid eastern Australia. Journal of Arid Environments 32: 329-346

Norton, R.A. & Kinnear, A. 1999. New Australian records of xerophilic acariform mites (Oribatida and Prostigmata). Australian Entomologist 26: 53-55

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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