Family HUMEROBATIDAE Grandjean, 1971

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• Humerobatidae Grandjean, F. 1971. Nouvelles observations sur les Oribates (8e serié). Acarologia 12: 849-876.

Introduction

The family Humerobatidea includes a single genus and 11 species (Schatz et al. 2011). Subias (2004, 2011) used a much wider concept of the family, including many genera that are here placed in other families. These mites feed on fungi and algae growing on trees, and do not occur in litter (Norton & Behan-Pelletier 2009). The family is known from Australia on the basis of an unidentified species of Humerobates that was collected on live leaves, and unidentified Humerobatidae were also reported by Adolphson & Kinnear (2008).

General References

Adolphson, H. & Kinnear, A. 2008. Acari (mite) assemblages under plantations of bluegum, Eucalyptus globulus, in southwestern Australia. Pedobiologia 51: 427–437

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.

Subias, L.S February 2011. Listado sistemático, sinonímico y biogeográfico de los ácaros oribátidos (Acariformes: Oribatida) del mundo (excepto fósiles). Departamento de Zoología, Facultad de Biología, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain. http://www.ucm.es/info/zoo/Artropodos/Catalogo.pdf [date of access 1 October 2011]

Subias, L.S. 2004. Listado sistemático, sinonímico y biogeográfico de los ácaros oribátidos (Acariformes, Oribatida) del mundo (1758-2002). Graellsia 60 (Supplement): 3–305

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