Family PUNCTORIBATIDAE Thor, 1937

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• Punctoribatidae Thor, S. 1937. Ubersicht der norwegischen Cryptostigmata mit einzelnen Nebenbemerkungen. Nyt Magazin for Naturvidenskaberne 77: 275–307.
• Mycobatidae Grandjean, F. 1954. Essai de classification des Oribates (Acariens). Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 78: 421-446.

Introduction

The Australian Punctoribatidae are very poorly known, with only one identified species in each of three genera, and records of unidentified species in a further three genera. The family now includes the species previously placed in the Mycobatidae, to make a cosmopolitan family of about 12 genera and 60 species. The taxonomy of Punctoribatidae and related families is very unstable, and different authors have used different family-level classifications. The classification of the Ceratozetoidea will continue to change in response to further research (for example Coetzee, 2015; Ermilov, 2016).

General References

Coetzee, L. 2015. Key to the species of Afroleius Mahunka, 1984 (Acari, Oribatida, Punctoribatidae), recombination of A. polygonatus (Mahunka, 1985), description of A. lucidus sp. nov. and discussion of A. undulatus (Balogh, 1959). Systematic and Applied Acarology 20: 383-398.

Ermilov, S. 2016. Additions to the oribatid mite fauna (Acari, Oribatida) of Chile: results of the Russian Biological Expedition (2014). Systematic and Applied Acarology 21: 967-977.

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