Family HERMANNIIDAE Sellnick, 1928

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• Hermanniidae Sellnick, M. 1928. Formenkreis : Hornmilben, Oribatei. Die Tierwelt Mitteleuropas 4(3): ix 1-42.

Introduction

The family Hermanniidae is cosmopolitan, and includes four genera and 111 species world-wide (Schatz et al. 2011). They are abundant in forest litter and soil, where they appear to feed on decaying plant material and the associated fungi (Norton & Behan-Pelletier 2009). The family was revised most recently by Woas (1981). There is a rich fauna in southeast Asia and the Pacific, but until recently the Australian fauna was almost unknown. Colloff & Halliday (1998) listed only a single species of Phyllhermannia and records of other unidentified species. The Australian fauna now includes one genus and 17 species, as recently revised by Colloff (2011).

General References

Colloff, M.J. 2011. New species of the oribatid mite genus Phyllhermannia Berlese, 1916 (Acari, Oribatida, Hermanniidae) from wet forests in south-eastern Australia show a high diversity of morphologically-similar, short-range endemics. Zootaxa 2770: 1–60

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.

Woas, S. 1981. Zur Taxonomie und Phylogenie der Hermanniidae Sellnick 1928 (Acari, Oribatei). Andrias 1: 7–88

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