Family MICREREMIDAE Grandjean, 1954

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• Micreremidae Grandjean, F. 1954. Essai de classification des Oribates (Acariens). Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 78: 421-446.
• Fenicheliidae Balogh, J. & Balogh, P. 1984. A review of the Oribatuloidea Thor, 1929 (Acari : Oribatei). Acta Zoologica Hungarica 30: 257-313.

Introduction

The family Micreremidae includes six genera and 20 species world-wide (Schatz et al. 2011), with the greatest number of species in the Afrotropical Region (Subias 2011). Subias (2011) placed the genus Phylleremus in the Micreremidae, but I here follow Behan-Pelletier & Walter (2007) in provisionally placing Phylleremus in the Adhaesozetidae. The family now includes the genera that were previously placed in the family Fenicheliidae. The species that are well-known are arboreal, and shelter in cracks in bark and other protected situations (Norton & Behan-Pelletier 2009). The family is known from Australia on the basis of a single endemic species of Plumobates from rainforest litter in Queensland, and a record of an unidentified species of Micreremus.

General References

Behan-Pelletier, V.M. & Walter, D.E. 2007. Phylleremus n. gen., from leaves of deciduous trees in eastern Australia (Oribatida: Licneremaeoidea). Zootaxa 1386: 1–17

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]

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