Family NOSYBEIDAE Mahunka, 1993

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• Nosybeidae Mahunka, S. 1993. Oribatids from Madagascar I. (Acari: Oribatida). New and interesting mites from the Geneva Museum LXXVI. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 100: 289–315.

Introduction

The family Nosybeidae is a very small family, including only two genera and seven species (Subias 2004, 2011). The most important contribution to the systematics of the family was by Mahunka (1993). The larger of the two genera, Topalia, has a Gondwanan distribution in South Africa, South America, and Australasia. The family is represented in Australia by five species of Topalia from soil, moss and litter in New South Wales and southern Queensland. These were referred to as unidentified species by Osler (1997), Hunt et al. (1998) and Colloff & Halliday (1998), and described by Colloff (2019).

General References

Colloff, M.J. 2019. The oribatid mite genus Topalia in Australia (Oribatida: Nosybeidae) and the taxonomic status of related families and genera. Zootaxa 4647(1): 290-321.

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

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.

Mahunka, S. 1993. Oribatids from Madagascar I. (Acari: Oribatida). New and interesting mites from the Geneva Museum LXXVI. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 100: 289–315

Osler, G.H.R. 1997. Factors Contributing to the Structure of Soil Mite Communities. PhD thesis, Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University. 212 pp.

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]

Subias, L.S. 2004. Listado sistemático, sinonímico y biogeográfico de los ácaros oribátidos (Acariformes, Oribatida) del mundo (1758-2002). Graellsia 60 (Supplement): 3–305

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