Family PEDROCORTESELLIDAE Paschoal, 1987

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• Pedrocortesellidae Paschoal, A.D. 1987. A revision of the Pedrocortesellidae, fam. n. (Acari : Oribatei). Revista Brasiliera de Zoologica, São Paulo 3: 385-395.

Introduction

The classification of the Superfamily Plateremaeoidea has not yet been satisfactorily resolved. Different authors have proposed different classifications, and the system used here for this and related families must be regarded as provisional. In the classification used by Schatz et al. (2011), the family Pedrocortesellidae includes two genera and 41 species. The family is primarily Gondwanan in distribution, with almost all its species described from Australia, South Africa, and South America. The Australian fauna includes two genera and 26 species, most of which were described by Hunt (1996a, 1996b). The fauna is especially rich in semi-arid woodland, and includes many species that are found on tree trunks as well as those from leaf litter (Colloff & Halliday 19989; Norton & Behan-Pelletier 2009). Unidentified species of Pedrocortesellidae were reported by Callan et al. (2011) and Majer et al. (2013).

General References

Callan, S.K., Majer, J.D., Edwards, K. & Moro, D. 2011. Documenting the terrestrial invertebrate fauna of Barrow Island, Western Australia. Australian Journal of Entomology 50: 323–343

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

Hunt, G.S. 1996a. A review of the genus Pedrocortesella Hammer in Australia (Acarina: Cryptostigmata: Pedrocortesellidae). Records of the Australian Museum 48: 223-286

Hunt, G.S. 1996b. A review of the genus Hexachaetoniella Paschoal in Australia (Acarina: Cryptostigmata: Pedrocortesellidae). Records of the Australian Museum 48: 287-302

Majer, J.D., Callan, S.K., Edwards, K., Gunawardene, N.R. & Taylor, C.K. 2013. Baseline survey of the terrestrial invertebrate fauna of Barrow Island. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 83: 13-112.

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.

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