Family LORDALYCIDAE Grandjean, 1939

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• Lordalycidae Grandjean, F. 1939. Quelques genres d'acariens appartenant au groupe des Endeostigmata. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie 11 2: 1-122.

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Lordalychidae Grandjean, 1939 [subsequent misspelling]. —
  Krantz, G.W. 1978. A Manual of Acarology. Corvallis : Oregon State University Bookstore 2, pp. 509.

Introduction

The name of this family has sometimes been mis-spelled as Lordalychidae. The family includes a single genus Hybalicus Berlese, 1913, which is a synonym of Lordalycus Grandjean, 1938. The most substantial taxonomic work on the subject is by Theron & Ryke (1975), who described five species from soil in South Africa. Walter et al. (2009) described the family as common worldwide, and described or undescribed species have been described from Europe, South Africa, Malaysia, and North America. Nothing is known of their biology, but they appear to feed on fungi. The family is known from Australia only from an undescribed species of Hybalicus from Queensland (Walter et al. 2009), and unidentified Lordalychidae reported by Proctor et al. (2011). Womersley (1944) described Hybalicus gibbosus from Australia, but that species is now placed in the family Terpnacaridae, as Terpnacarus gibbosus.

General References

Berlese, A. 1913. Acari nuovi. Manipoli VII-VIII. Redia. Giornale di entomologia, Firenze 9: 77-111 pls I-VIII

Grandjean, F. 1938. Description d'une prélarve et remarques sur la bouche des acariens. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 63: 58–68

Krantz, G.W. 1978. A Manual of Acarology. Corvallis : Oregon State University Bookstore 2, pp. 509.

Proctor, H., Kanowski, J., Catterall, C.P., Wardell-Johnson, G. & Reis, T. 2011. Rainforest-restoration success as judged by assemblages of soil- and litter-dwelling mites (Arachnida: Acari). Zoosymposia 6: 234–254

Theron, P.D. & Ryke, P.A.J. 1975. Five new species of the family Lordalychidae (Acari: Endeostigmata) from South Africa. Acarologia 17: 631–651

Walter, D.E., Lindquist, E.E., Smith, I.M., Cook, D.R. & Krantz, G.W. 2009. Order Trombidiformes. pp. 233-420 in Krantz, G.W. & Walter, D.E. (eds). A Manual of Acarology. Lubbock, Texas : Texas Tech University Press Third edition, 807 pp.

Womersley, H. 1944. Australian Acarina, families Alycidae and Nanorchestidae. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 68: 133-143

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