Family HOMOCALIGIDAE Wood, 1969

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• Homocaligidae Wood, T.G. 1969. The Homocaligidae, a new family of mites (Acari: Raphignathoidea), including a description of a new species from Malaya and the British Solomon Islands. Acarologia 11: 711-729.

Introduction

The Homocaligidae is a small family of aquatic mites that can skate across the surface of water, especially in swampy habitats (Walter et al. 2009). The limited amount of information on the family is widely scattered, with records from North America, South Africa, China, and Malaysia. Smith Meyer & Ueckermann (1989) listed the five species known to that time, and Fan (1997) raised the total number of species in the family to eight. The family is known from Australia only on the basis of unidentified species of Annerossella from Queensland, as reported by Walter et al. (2009).

General References

Fan, Q.-H. 1997. The Homocaligidae (Acari: Raphignathoidea) from China, with description of two new species. Entomologica Sinica 4: 337–342

Smith Meyer, M.K.P. & Ueckermann, E.A. 1989. African Raphignathoidea (Acari: Prostigmata). Republic of South Africa Department of Agriculture and Water Supply, Entomology Memoir 74: 1–58

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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