Family ORIBATELLIDAE Jacot, 1925

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• Oribatellinae Jacot, A.P. 1925. Phylogeny in the Oribatoidea. American Naturalist 59: 272-279.

Introduction

The family Oribatellidae includes ten genera and 131 species world-wide (Schatz et al. 2011). The family is cosmopolitan, but is uncommon in the Southern Hemisphere (summarised by Subias 2011). Some genera that were included in the family by previous authors have now been moved into other families, and the placement of some other genera remains questionable (Norton & Behan-Pelletier 2009). The Australian fauna of Oribatellidae is poorly known, with only one known endemic species from North Queensland. O'Dowd et al. (1991) reported an unidentified species in an unknown genus near Lamellobates. Colloff & Halliday (1998) placed Safrobates in the Oribatellidae, but it is here placed in the Punctoribatidae.

General References

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.

O'Dowd, D.J., Brew, C.R., Christophel, D.C. & Norton, R.A. 1991. Mite-plant associations from the Eocene of southern Australia. Science (Washington, D.C.) 252: 99-101

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]

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