Family PELOPPIIDAE Balogh, 1943

Museums

Regional Maps

• Peloppiidae Balogh, J. 1943. Systematische studien über Siebenbürgische moosmilben. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici (Zoologica) 36: 32-42.

Introduction

The cosmopolitan family Peloppiidae includes 19 genera and 81 species world-wide (Schatz et al. 2011). Subias (2004, 2011) did not recognise this family, but instead placed its genera in the families Metrioppiidae and Ceratoppiidae (Norton & Behan-Pelletier 2009). The Australian fauna is very poorly known, with only one identified species in each of two genera, and a few records of unidentified species, as reviewed by Colloff & Halliday (1998). Some authors have used the name Metrioppiidae for this family. However Peloppiidae is the correct name, as explained in detail by Colloff & Halliday (1998).

General References

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

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.

Schatz, H., Behan-Pelletier, V.M., OConnor, B.M. & Norton, R.A. 2011. Suborder Oribatida van der Hammen, 1968. pp. 141–148 in Zhang, Z.-Q. Animal Biodiversity: An Outline of Higher-level Classification and Survey of Taxonomic Richness. Auckland : Magnolia Press.

Subias, L.S February 2011. Listado sistemático, sinonímico y biogeográfico de los ácaros oribátidos (Acariformes: Oribatida) del mundo (excepto fósiles). Departamento de Zoología, Facultad de Biología, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain. http://www.ucm.es/info/zoo/Artropodos/Catalogo.pdf [date of access 1 October 2011]

Subias, L.S. 2004. Listado sistemático, sinonímico y biogeográfico de los ácaros oribátidos (Acariformes, Oribatida) del mundo (1758-2002). Graellsia 60 (Supplement): 3–305

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