Bibliography for Ophionyssus Mégnin, 1883

• Camin, J.H. 1949. An attempt to clarify the status of the species in the genus Ophionyssus Mégnin (Acarina: Macronyssidae). Journal of Parasitology 35: 583-589
• Camin, J.H. 1953. Observations on the life history and sensory behavior of the snake mite, Ophionyssus natricis (Gervais) (Acarina : Macronyssidae). Special Publication, Chicago Academy of Sciences 10: 1-75 pls I-III
• Carne, P.B. (ed.) 1987. Scientific and Common Names of Insects and Allied Forms Occurring in Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO 120 pp.
• Domrow, R. 1963. New records and species of Austromalayan laelapid mites. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 88: 199-220
• Domrow, R. 1974. Miscellaneous mites from Australian vertebrates. 1-48. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 99: 15-35
• Domrow, R. 1981. A small lizard stifled by phoretic deutonymphal mites (Uropodina). Acarologia 22: 247-252
• Domrow, R. 1985. Species of Ophionyssus Mégnin from Australian lizards and snakes (Acari : Dermanyssidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 24: 149-153
• Domrow, R. 1988. Acari Mesostigmata parasitic on Australian vertebrates: an annotated checklist, keys and bibliography. Invertebrate Taxonomy 1: 817-948
• Domrow, R. 1992. Acari Astigmata (excluding feather mites) parasitic on Australian vertebrates: an annotated checklist, keys and bibliography. Invertebrate Taxonomy 6: 1459-1606
• Evans, G.O. & Till, W.M. 1966. Studies on the British Dermanyssidae (Acari : Mesostigmata). Part II. Classification. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology 14: 109-370
• Fain, A. 1962. Les acariens mesostigmatiques ectoparasites des serpents. Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique 38(18): 1-149
• Gervais, F.L.P. 1844. Acarides. pp. 260-266 in Walckenaer (ed.). Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Aptères. Paris : Roret Vol. 3.
• Lee, D.C. & Southcott, R.V. 1979. Spiders and other Arachnids of South Australia. pp. 29-43 in Leonard, B.E. (ed.). South Australian Year Book No. 14. Adelaide : Australian Bureau of Statistics.
• Mégnin, P. 1883. Etude d'un acarien parasite des serpents, l'Ophionyssus natricis, P. Gervais, et de son action. Compte Rendu des Séances de la Société de Biologie, Paris 36: 614-619
• Micherdzinski, W. 1980. Eine Taxonomische Analyse der Familie Macronyssidae Oudemans, 1936. I. Subfamilie Ornithonyssinae Lange, 1958 (Acarina, Mesostigmata). Warsaw and Cracow : Polska Akademia Nauk pp. 264.
• Moraza, M.L., Irwin, N.R., Godinho, R., Baird, S.J.E. & de Bellocq, J.G. 2009. A new species of Ophionyssus Mégnin (Acari: Mesostigmata: Macronyssidae) parasitic on Lacerta schreiberi Bedriaga (Reptilia: Lacertidae) from the Iberian Peninsula, and a world key to species. Zootaxa 2007: 58-68
• Naumann, I. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Australian Insect Names. Common and Scientific Names for Insects and Allied Organisms of Economic and Environmental Importance. Melbourne : CSIRO Publications v 200 pp. [Date published 31/12/1993]
• Radovsky, F.J. 2010. Revision of Genera of the Parasitic Mite Family Macronyssidae (Mesostigmata: Dermanyssoidea) of the World. West Bloomfield, Michigan : Indira Publishing House pp. 170.
• Strandtmann, R.W. & Wharton, G.W. 1958. Manual of Mesostigmatid Mites. Contribution number 4, Institute of Acarology, College Park, Maryland. 330 pp. 60 pls
• Walter, D.E. & Shaw, M. 2002. First record of the mite Hirstiella diolii Baker (Prostigmata: Pterygosomatidae) from Australia, with a review of mites found on Australian lizards. Australian Journal of Entomology 41: 30-34
• Walter, D.E. & Shaw, M. 2003. The importance of being earnest: Exotic invasive mites (Arachnida: Acari) on Australian vertebrates. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) Monogr. Ser 7: 25-30
• Womersley, H. 1956. On some new Acarina-Mesostigmata from Australia, New Zealand and New Guinea. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 42: 505-599

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