Family NOTHRIDAE Berlese, 1885

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• Nothridae Berlese, A. 1885. Acarorum systematis specimen. Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 17: 121-135.

Introduction

The family Nothridae includes three genera and 93 species world-wide (Schatz et al. 2011). The family is cosmopolitan, but is most diverse in the Southern Hemisphere (data from Subias 2011). These mites are found in forest litter, where they feed on dead plant material and the associated fungi (Norton & Behan-Pelletier 2009). The Australian fauna includes three genera and nine species, six of which were described by Colloff (2011). Unidentified species have been recorded from Australia a number of times as listed for each genus, and unidentified Nothridae were also reported by Heatwole et al. (1981) and Walter & Stirling (2018).

General References

Colloff, M.J. 2011. A review of the oribatid mite family Nothridae in Australia, with new species of Novonothrus and Trichonothrus from rain forest and their Gondwanan biogeographical affinities (Acari: Oribatidae). Zootaxa 3005: 1–44

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.

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.

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]

Walter, D.E. & Stirling, G.R. 2018. Microarthropods in Australian sugarcane soils: A survey with emphasis on the Mesostigmata as potential regulators of nematode populations. Acarologia 58: 673-682.

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