Bibliography for Odontoscirus lapidaria (Kramer, 1881)

• Atyeo, W.T. 1963. The Bdellidae (Acarina) of the Australian realm. Part I. New Zealand, Campbell Island, and the Aukland Islands. Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum 4(8): 113-166
• Atyeo, W.T. 1963. The Bdellidae (Acarina) of the Australian realm. Part II. Australia and Tasmania. Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum 4(8): 167-210
• Atyeo, W.T. & Tuxen, S.L. 1962. The Icelandic Bdellidae (Acarina). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 35: 281-298
• Carne, P.B. (ed.) 1987. Scientific and Common Names of Insects and Allied Forms Occurring in Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO 120 pp.
• Cullen, J.M. 1993. Biological control of weed, invertebrate and disease pests of Australian sheep pasture. pp. 293-312 in Del Fosse, E.S. (ed.). Pests of Pastures: Weed Invertebrate and Disease Pests of Australian Sheep Pastures. Melbourne : CSIRO.
• Currie, G.A. 1934. The bdellid mite Biscirus lapidarius Kramer, predatory on the lucerne flea Sminthurus viridis L. in Western Australia. Journal of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. Australia 7: 9-20
• Halliday, R.B. 2005. Predatory mites from crops and pastures in South Africa: Potential natural enemies of redlegged earth mite Halotydeus destructor (Acari: Penthaleidae). Zootaxa 1079: 11–64
• Ireson, J.E. 1982. A reexamination of the distribution of the pasture snout mite, Bdellodes lapidaria (Kramer) (Acari: Bdellidae) and the lucerne flea, Sminthurus viridis (L.) (Collembola: Sminthuridae) in Tasmania. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 21: 251-255
• Ireson, J.E. 1984. The effectiveness of Bdellodes lapidaria (Kramer) (Acari: Bdellidae) as a predator of Smithurus viridis (L.) (Collembola: Sminthuridae) in North West Tasmania. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 23: 185-191
• Ireson, J.E. & Webb, W.R. 1995. Effectiveness of Neomolgus capillatus (Kramer) (Acarina: Bdellidae) as a predator of Sminthurus viridis (L.) (Collembola: Sminthuridae) in northwestern Tasmania. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 34: 237-240
• Kramer, P. 1881. Ueber Milben. Zeitschrift für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften Halle 54: 418-452
• Lee, D.C. & Southcott, R.V. 1979. Spiders and other Arachnids of South Australia. In South Australian Yearbook, 1979. South Australian Government Printer : Adelaide. 15 pp.
• Michael, P.J., Dutch, M.E. & Pekin, C.J. 1991. A review of the predators of redlegged earth mite, blue oat mite and lucerne flea. Plant Protection Quarterly 6: 178-180
• Michael, P.J., Dutch, M.E. & Pekin, C.J. 1993. Biological control of redlegged earth mite, Halotydeus destructor, Blue Oat Mite, Penthaleus major, and Lucerne Flea, Sminthurus viridis. pp. 329-331 in Del Fosse, E.S. (ed.). Pests of Pastures: Weed Invertebrate and Disease Pests of Australian Sheep Pastures. Melbourne : CSIRO.
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• Wallace, M.M.H. 1971. The influence of temperature and moisture on diapause development in the eggs of Bdellodes lapidaria (Acari : Bdellidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 10: 276-280
• Wallace, M.M.H. 1981. Tackling the lucerne flea and the red-legged earth mite. Journal of Agriculture, Western Australia 22: 72-74
• Wallace, M.M.H. & Mahon, J.A. 1971. The ecology of Sminthurus viridis (Collembola). III. The influence of climate and land use on its distribution and that of an important predator, Bdellodes lapidaria (Acari : Bdellidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 19: 177-188
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• Wallace, M.M.H. & Walters, M.C. 1974. The introduction of Bdellodes lapidaria (Acari : Bdellidae) from Australia into South Africa for the biological control of Sminthurus viridis (Collembola). Australian Journal of Zoology 22: 505-517
• Womersley, H. 1933. A possible biological control of the clover springtail or lucerne flea (Sminthurus viridis L.) in Western Australia. Journal of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. Australia 6: 83-91
• Womersley, H. 1933. A preliminary account of the Bdellidae (Snout mites) of Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 57: 97-107

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