Family CHIRODISCIDAE Trouessart, 1892

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• Chirodiscidea Trouessart, E.L. 1892. Considérations générales sur la classification des acariens, suivies d'un essai de classification nouvelle. Revue des Sciences Naturelles de l'Ouest 2: 20-54.

Introduction

The Chirodiscidae is a cosmopolitan family of 28 genera and about 250 species of ectoparasitic mites that occur in the fur of a variety of mammals, mostly bats (OConnor 2009). The world fauna was reviewed by Bochkov (2010), and the Australian fauna of 6 genera and 11 species, all from bat hosts, was catalogued and keyed by Domrow (1992).

Bochkov (2010) listed Alabidocarpus parryae Fain, 1976 as occurring in "Australia", without further qualification. However, that statement is based on a broad concept of the Australian biogeographic region, which includes areas that are not part of Australia as defined here. This species was described from Vanuatu and has not been recorded from Australia. The same argument applies to Asiolabidocarpus bougainvilleensis Fain, 1972 (Solomon Islands), Dentocarpus notopteris Fain, 1976 (Vanuatu), Dentocarpus borneoensis Fain, 1979 (Borneo), Olabidocarpus orientalis Fain, 1976 (Malaya and Java), Olabidocarpus americanus McDaniel & Lawrence, 1964 (North America, Hawaii and the Galapagos Islands), and Olabidocarpus aselliscus McDaniel & Lawrence, 1964 (Solomon Islands).

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Misidentifications

Chirodiscidae: Alabidocarpus parryae Fain, 1976 — Fain, A. 1976. Nouveaux acariens parasites de la superfamille Listrophoroidea (Astigmates). Acta Zoologica et Pathologica Antverpiensia 64: 37–67

Chirodiscidae: Asiolabidocarpus bougainvilleensis Fain, 1972 — Fain, A. 1972. Nouveaux acariens parasites (Sarcoptiformes et Trombidiformes). Bulletin et Annales de la Société Royale Belgique d'Entomologie 108: 242–252

Chirodiscidae: Dentocarpus borneoensis Fain, 1979 — Fain, A. 1979. Diagnoses de nouveaux Labidocarpinae parasites de chiropteres asiatiques (Acari, Astigmata). Bulletin et Annales de la Société Royale Belgique d'Entomologie 115: 264-266

Chirodiscidae: Dentocarpus notopteris Fain, 1976 — Fain, A. 1976. Nouveaux acariens parasites de la superfamille Listrophoroidea (Astigmates). Acta Zoologica et Pathologica Antverpiensia 64: 37–67

Chirodiscidae: Olabidocarpus americanus McDaniel & Lawrence, 1964 — McDaniel, B. & Lawrence, R.F. 1964. A redescription of the genus Olabidocarpus Lawrence with a description of a new species from Texas (Acarina : Listrophoridae). Acarologia 6: 163–169

Chirodiscidae: Olabidocarpus orientalis Fain, 1976 — Fain, A. 1976. Nouveaux acariens parasites de la superfamille Listrophoroidea (Astigmates). Acta Zoologica et Pathologica Antverpiensia 64: 37–67

Chirodiscidae: Paralabidocarpus aselliscus Fain, 1982 — Fain, A. 1982. The labidocarpine mites (Acari, Chirodiscidae) from oriental bats. III. Genera Paralabidocarpus Pinichpongse, 1963, Labidocarpoides Fain, 1970, Labidocarpus Trouessart, 1895 and Alabidocarpus Ewing, 1929. Systematic Parasitology 4: 303-336

General References

Bochkov, A.V. 2010. A review of mammal-associated Psoroptidia (Acariformes: Astigmata). Acarina. Russian Journal of Acarology 18: 99–260

Domrow, R. 1992. Acari Astigmata (excluding feather mites) parasitic on Australian vertebrates: an annotated checklist, keys and bibliography. Invertebrate Taxonomy 6: 1459-1606

OConnor, B.M. 2009. Cohort Astigmatina. pp. 565–657 in Krantz, G.W. & Walter, D.E. (eds). A Manual of Acarology. Lubbock, Texas : Texas Tech University Press Third edition, 807 pp.

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