Genus Hypoaspis Canestrini, 1884

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• Hypoaspis Canestrini, G. 1884. Prospetto dell'acarofauna Italiana. Atti del Reale Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti 6 2: 1563-1607.

Introduction

The classification of Hypoaspis and related genera is very unstable. Some of the species that are listed here as Hypoaspis will probably be transferred to other genera when they are carefully re-examined. Some of the species that were included in Hypoaspis in previous editions of this list have already been transferred to Gaeolaelaps.

In addition to the named species listed here, unidentified species of Hypoaspis have been reported from Australia many times, including Rayment (1954), Domrow & Smith (1956), Roth & Willis (1960), Lowry (1980), Heatwole et al. (1981), Walter (1995), Longstaff et al. (1999) and Seeman & Nahrung (2002).

General References

Domrow, R. & Smith, D.J.W. 1956. Acarina from five hundred native mammals from Queensland. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 80: 201-206

Heatwole, H., Done, T. & Cameron, E. 1981. Community Ecology of a Coral Cay: A study of One-Tree Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia. The Hague : W. Junk 379 pp.

Longstaff, B.C., Greenslade, P.J.M., Colloff, M., Reid, I., Hart, P. & Packer, I. 1999. Managing Soils in Agriculture. The Impact of Soil Tillage Practices on Soil Fauna. Canberra, Australia : Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation Publication No 99/18. pp. 65.

Lowry, J.W.J. 1980. Ecological Relationships of Western Australian Cavernicoles. MSc. Thesis, School of Zoology, University of New South Wales. Vol. 1 367 pp., Vol. 2 204 pp. + appendices

Rayment, T. 1954. Incidence of acarid mites on the biology of bees. The Australian Zoologist 12: 26-38

Roth, L.M. & Willis, E.R. 1960. The biotic associations of cockroaches. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 141: 1-470 36 pls

Seeman, O.D. & Nahrung, H.F. 2000. Mites as fungal vectors? The ectoparasitic fungi of mites and their arthropod associates in Queensland. Australasian Mycologist 19: 3-9

Walter, D.E. 1995. Dancing on the head of a pin: mites in the rainforest canopy. pp. 49-53 in M.S. Harvey (ed.). Australasian Spiders and their Relatives: Papers Honouring Barbara York Main. Records of the Western Australian Museum 52(Supplement)

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