Family NEOLIODIDAE Sellnick, 1928

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• Neoliodidae Sellnick, M. 1928. Formenkreis : Hornmilben, Oribatei. Die Tierwelt Mitteleuropas 4(3): ix 1-42.
• Liodidae Grandjean, F. 1954. Essai de classification des Oribates (Acariens). Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 78: 421-446.

Introduction

The family Neoliodidae is cosmopolitan, and includes four genera and 55 species world-wide (Schatz et al. 2011). Most species have been found in soil and leaf litter or under bark, and many species are arboreal (Norton & Behan-Pelletier 2009). The family is known from Australia only from a series of records of incompletely identified species of Liodes (Heatwole et al. 1981; Lee 1986; Hunt 1994; Colloff & Halliday 1998), Neoliodes (Lee 1986) and Teleioliodes (Hunt et al. 1998; Colloff & Halliday, 1998). Heatwole et al. (1981) also reported an unidentified species of Liodidae, and Beyer et al. (2011), Callan et al. (2011) and Majer et al. (2013) reported unidentified species of Neoliodidae. The family has sometimes been called Liodidae, but the correct name is Neoliodidae (Halliday & Majka 2010).

General References

Beyer, S., Kinnear, A., Hutley, L.B., McGuiness, K. & Gibb, K. 2011. Assessing the relationship between fire and grazing on soil characteristics and mite communities in a semi-arid savanna of northern Australia. Pedobiologia 54: 195–200

Callan, S.K., Majer, J.D., Edwards, K. & Moro, D. 2011. Documenting the terrestrial invertebrate fauna of Barrow Island, Western Australia. Australian Journal of Entomology 50: 323–343

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

Halliday, R.B. & Majka, C.G. 2010. Clarification of the status of the genus names Leiodes Latreille 1796 (Coleoptera), Liodes von Heyden 1826 (Acari) and Neoliodes Berlese 1888 (Acari). Zootaxa 2600: 61-65

Heatwole, H., Done, T. & Cameron, E. 1981. Community Ecology of a Coral Cay: A study of One-Tree Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia. The Hague : W. Junk 379 pp.

Hunt, G.S. 1994. Oribatids - a mite biodiverse. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 36: 107-114

Hunt, G.S., Colloff, M.J., Dallwitz, M. & Walter, D.E. 1998. An Interactive Key to Oribatid Mites of Australia (CD-ROM). Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing.

Lee, D.C. 1986. Taxonomy and Distribution of Sarcoptiform Mites (Cryptostigmata and Astigmata: Acari) in South Australian Soils. PhD Thesis, University of Queensland, Brisbane. 272 pp.

Majer, J.D., Callan, S.K., Edwards, K., Gunawardene, N.R. & Taylor, C.K. 2013. Baseline survey of the terrestrial invertebrate fauna of Barrow Island. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 83: 13-112.

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.

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