Family ORIBOTRITIIDAE Balogh, 1943

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• Oribotritiidae Balogh, J. 1943. Magyarország Páncélosatkái (Conspectus Oribateorum Hungariae). Budapest : Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Kiadása Part 202. pp.

Introduction

The family Oribotritiidae is cosmopolitan, and includes 11 genera and almost 200 species world-wide (Schatz et al. 2011). Different authors have used different concepts of the genera in this family, but the classification used here is based on that of Subias (2011). These mites feed on decaying plant material, and their immature stages are found in burrows in dead wood (Norton & Behan-Pelletier 2009). The Australian fauna includes four genera and 18 species, most of which were revised by Niedbała (2000, 2012). Unidentified species have been reported from Australia a number of times, as listed for each genus.

General References

Niedbała, W. 2000. The Ptyctimous Mites Fauna of the Oriental and Australian Regions and their Centres of Origin (Acari: Oribatida). Wrocław : Polskie Towarzystwo Taksonomiczne pp. 493.

Niedbała, W. 2012. An updated study of ptyctimous mite fauna (Acari: Oribatida) of the Australasian Region with a description of thirteen new species. Acarologia 52: 183–228

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]

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