Family NANHERMANNIIDAE Sellnick, 1928

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• Nanhermanniidae Sellnick, M. 1928. Formenkreis : Hornmilben, Oribatei. Die Tierwelt Mitteleuropas 4(3): ix 1-42.

Introduction

The family Nanhermanniidae includes eight genera and 65 species world-wide (Schatz et al. 2011). They are heavily sclerotised and slow-moving mites that are found in forest litter, especially in the Oriental and Neotropical Regions (Norton & Behan-Pelletier 2009; Subias 2011). The Australian fauna includes five species in two genera, as well as a number of records of unidentified species, as reviewed by Colloff & Halliday (1998). Four of the five species were described by Balogh (1985), in forest litter in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory. Stone & Simpson (1990) reported an unidentified species under bark in New South Wales.

General References

Balogh, P. 1985. Data to the oribatid fauna of Australia (Acari). III. Acta Zoologica Hungarica 31: 81-96

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.

Stone, C. & Simpson, J.A. 1990. Species associations in Ips grandicollis galleries in Pinus taeda. New Zealand Journal of Forestry Science 20: 75-96.

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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