Family MALACONOTHRIDAE Berlese, 1916

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Regional Maps

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

Introduction

The family Malaconothridae includes four genera and 157 species world-wide (Schatz et al. 2011). The family is cosmopolitan, and is diverse in tropical Africa, the Neotropical Region, and southeast Asia (Subias 2011). Many species have been collected in wet habitats such as peat bogs, streams, springs, and lakes, but little else is known of their biology (Norton & Behan-Pelletier 2009). The Australian fauna was comprehensively revised by Colloff & Cameron (2013).

General References

Colloff, M.J. & Cameron, S.L. 2013. A phylogenetic analysis and taxonomic revision of the oribatid mite family Malaconothridae (Acari: Oribatida), with new species of Tyrphonothrus and Malaconothrus from Australia. Zootaxa 3681(4): 301-346

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

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., O'Dowd, D. & Barnes, V. 1994. The forgotten arthropods: Foliar mites in the forest canopy. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 36: 221-226

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