Family LOHMANNIIDAE Berlese, 1916

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• Lohmannini Berlese, A. 1916. Centuria seconda di Acari nuovi. Redia. Giornale di entomologia, Firenze 12: 125-177.

Introduction

The family Lohmanniidae is large, with 25 genera and more than 200 species world-wide (Schatz et al. 2011; Subias 2011). The family is most diverse in tropical climates, where its members feed on decomposing plant material (Norton & Behan-Pelletier 2009). The most extensive recent taxonomic work on the family was by Balogh & Balogh (1987). The Australian fauna includes one identified species in each of three genera, and records of unidentified species in a further three genera. Unidentified Lohmanniidae were also reported by Harvey et al. (1993), Longstaff et al. (1999) and Walter & Stirling (2018).

General References

Balogh, J. & Balogh, P. 1987. A new outline of the family Lohmanniidae Berlese, 1916 (Acari, Oribatei). Acta Zoologica Hungarica 33: 327-398

Harvey, M.S., Gray, M.R., Hunt, G.S. & Lee, D.C. 1993. The cavernicolous Arachnida and Myriapoda of Cape Range, Western Australia. pp. 129-144 in Humphreys, W.F. The Biogeography of Cape Range Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 45(Supplement)

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.

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]

Walter, D.E. & Stirling, G.R. 2018. Microarthropods in Australian sugarcane soils: A survey with emphasis on the Mesostigmata as potential regulators of nematode populations. Acarologia 58: 673-682.

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