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Genus Oribatula Berlese, 1896

Introduction

In addition to the named species listed here, unidentified species of Oribatula have been reported from Australia many times: under the name Oribatula sp., by Moulton (1982), Lee (1986), Osler (1997) and Colloff & Halliday (1998); under the name Zygoribatula sp., by Springett (1976, 1979), Heatwole et al. (1981), Malipatil & Blyth (1982), Greenslade (1985), Lee (1986), Walter & O'Dowd (1992), Seeman & Walter (1995), Colloff & Halliday (1998), Longstaff et al. (1999), Kinnear & Tongway (2004), and Osler & Murphy (2005); under the name ?Ceroribatula sp., by Proctor et al. (2002), and under the name Ceratobatula (sic), by Kinnear & Tongway (2004).

 

General References

Colloff, M.J. & Halliday, R.B. 1998. Oribatid Mites: A Catalogue of the Australian Genera and Species. Melbourne : CSIRO Publications.

Greenslade, P. 1985. Terrestrial invertebrates of the mound spring bores, creek beds and other habitats. pp. 64-77 in Greenslade, J., Joseph, L. & Reeves, A. (eds). South Australia's Mound Springs. Adelaide : Nature Conservation Society of South Australia.

Heatwole, H., Done, T. & Cameron, E. 1981. Community Ecology of a Coral Cay: A study of One-Tree Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia. The Hague : W. Junk 379 pp.

Kinnear, A. & Tongway, D. 2004. Grazing impacts on soil mites of semi-arid chenopod shrublands in Western Australia. Journal of Arid Environments 56: 63–82

Lee, D.C. 1986. Taxonomy and Distribution of Sarcoptiform Mites (Cryptostigmata and Astigmata: Acari) in South Australian Soils. PhD Thesis, University of Queensland, Brisbane. 272 pp.

Longstaff, B.C., Greenslade, P.J.M., Colloff, M., Reid, I., Hart, P. & Packer, I. 1999. Managing Soils in Agriculture. The Impact of Soil Tillage Practices on Soil Fauna. Canberra, Australia : Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation Publication No 99/18. pp. 65.

Malipatil, M.B. & Blyth, J.D. 1982. A qualitative study of the macroinvertebrate fauna of the Thomson River and its major tributaries, Gippsland, Victoria. Reports of the National Museum of Victoria 1: 1-95

Moulton, T.M. 1982. The effect of prescribed burning and simulated burning on soil and litter arthropods in open forest at Cordeaux, N.S.W. Australia. PhD Thesis, School of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University.

Osler, G.H.R. 1997. Factors Contributing to the Structure of Soil Mite Communities. PhD thesis, Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University. 212 pp.

Osler, G.H.R. & Murphy, D.V. 2005. Oribatid mite species richness and soil organic matter fractions in agriculturall and native vegetation soils in Western Australia. Applied Soil Ecology 29: 93–98

Proctor, H.C., Montgomery, K.M., Rosen, K.E. & Kitching, R.L. 2002. Are tree trunks habitats or highways? A comparison of oribatid mite assemblages from hoop-pine bark and litter. Australian Journal of Entomology 41: 294–299

Seeman, O.D. & Walter, D.E. 1995. Life history of Afrocypholaelaps africana (Evans) (Acari: Ameroseiidae), a mite inhabiting mangrove flowers and phoretic on honeybees. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 34: 45-50

Springett, J.A. 1976. The effect of planting Pinus pinaster Ait. on populations of soil microarthropods and on litter decomposition at Gnangara, Western Australia. Australian Journal of Ecology 1: 83-87

Springett, J.A. 1979. The effects of a single hot summer fire on soil fauna and on litter decomposition in jarrah (Eucalyptus marginata) forest in Western Australia. Australian Journal of Ecology 4: 279-291

Walter, D.E. & O'Dowd, D.J. 1992. Leaves with domatia have more mites. Ecology 73: 1514-1518

 

History of changes

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