Family HYDROZETIDAE Grandjean, 1954

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• Hydrozetidae Grandjean, F. 1954. Essai de classification des Oribates (Acariens). Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 78: 421-446.

Introduction

The family Hydrozetidae is cosmopolitan, and includes a single genus with 33 species world-wide (Schatz et al. 2011). Species in this family are aquatic and semi-aquatic, and are often found fully immersed in fresh water, on the surfaces of submerged aquatic plants on which they feed (Norton & Behan-Pelletier 2009). The family is known from Australia on the basis of a single cosmopolitan species, and several records of further unidentified species (Colloff & Halliday 1998). Fernández & Travé (1984) recorded Hydrozetes parisiensis from Australia. However, it has subsequently been shown that this record is a typographical error, which should have read Austria (Fernández, pers. comm. to G. Hunt, 1992).

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Misidentifications

HYDROZETIDAE: Hydrozetes parisiensis Fernández & Travé, 1984 — Fernández, N. & Travé, J. 1984. La variabilité chaetotaxique et la néotrichie gastronotique des Hydrozetidae (Oribates). Acarologia 25: 407-417

General References

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

Fernández, N. & Travé, J. 1984. La variabilité chaetotaxique et la néotrichie gastronotique des Hydrozetidae (Oribates). Acarologia 25: 407-417

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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