Family NEOTHROMBIIDAE Feider, 1959

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• Neothrombiinae Feider, Z. 1959. New proposals on the classification of mites from the group Trombidia. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 38: 537-549.

Introduction

The Neothrombiidae is a small but widespread family of 15 described species in 11 genera (Walter et al. 2009). The deutonymphs and adults are predators that are found in soil and litter, and the larvae are parasites of arthropods, mostly orthopteroid insects. The most recent revision of the family was by Zhang (1994), and a few more genera and species have been described since then. Saboori (2002) provided a key to the larvae of eight of the genera. Most genera are known only from the larva, so some changes to the classification can be expected when the adults of those species are discovered. Only two species have been described from Australia, and both are known only from the parasitic larva, one species on grasshoppers (Southcott 1986) and the other on a centipede (Southcott 1987).

General References

Saboori, A. 2002. A new genus and species of larval Neothrombiidae (Acari: Trombidioidea) from Iran. Systematic and Applied Acarology 7: 187–190

Southcott, R.V. 1986. Studies on the taxonomy and biology of the subfamily Trombidiinae (Acarina : Trombidiidae) with a critical revision of the genera. Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 123: 1-116

Southcott, R.V. 1987. A new larval mite (Acarina : Trombidioidea) ectoparasitic on an Australian centipede, and the Trombidiidae reclassified. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 111: 43-52

Walter, D.E., Lindquist, E.E., Smith, I.M., Cook, D.R. & Krantz, G.W. 2009. Order Trombidiformes. pp. 233-420 in Krantz, G.W. & Walter, D.E. (eds). A Manual of Acarology. Lubbock, Texas : Texas Tech University Press Third edition, 807 pp.

Zhang, Z.Q. 1994. Neothrombiidae (Acari: Trombidioidea) of the world: Systematic review with a phylogenetic analysis and descriptions of two new genera. Oriental Insects 28: 205-237

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