Family HERMANNIELLIDAE Grandjean, 1934

Museums

Regional Maps

• Hermanniellidae Grandjean, F. 1934. La notation des poiles gastronotiques et des poiles dorsaux du propodosoma chez les Oribates (Acariens). Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 59: 12-44.

Introduction

The family Hermanniellidae includes ten genera and 57 species world-wide (Schatz et al. 2011). They are mainly found in forest litter, where they appear to feed on fallen leaves, but some are found in the forest canopy and coastal habitats (Norton & Behan-Pelletier 2009). The family appears to be diverse and abundant in Australia, but is known only on the basis of unidentified species, which have been collected at a number of localities in eastern Australia. Hunt (1994) recorded an unidentified species of Hermanniella sp. from Australia, but these specimens have been re-identified as Hermannobates sp. (see Colloff & Halliday 1998).

Excluded Taxa

Misidentifications

Hermanniellidae: Hermanniella Berlese, 1908 — Berlese, A. 1908. Elenco di generi e specie nuove di acari. Redia. Giornale di entomologia, Firenze 5: 1-15

General References

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

Hunt, G.S. 1994. Oribatids - a mite biodiverse. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 36: 107-114

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.

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