Family MACHUELLIDAE Balogh, 1983

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• Machuellidae Balogh, J. 1983. A partial revision of the Oppiidae Grandjean, 1954 (Acari : Oribatei). Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungariae 29: 1-79.

Introduction

The family Machuellidae is small, with only two genera and 13 species world-wide (Schatz et al. 2011). The known species occur in Europe, Polynesia, and the Oriental Region, with a few records in Madagascar and Mexico (Subias 2011). The Australian fauna includes a single species collected in moss and litter in sclerophyll forest in South Australia. Machuella ventrisetosa has been described as Pantropical and Palaearctic in distribution, but that conclusion is based on a concept of the species that includes a number of subspecies and synonyms (listed by Subias 2011), and some of those taxa may prove to be separate species when they are examined more closely (Colloff & Halliday 1998).

General References

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

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]

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