Family PHEROLIODIDAE Paschoal, 1987

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• Pheroliodidae Paschoal, A.D. 1987. A revision of the Pheroliodidae, fam. n. (Acari: Oribatei). Revista Brasiliera de Zoologica, São Paulo 3: 357-384.
• Hammeriellidae Paschoal, A.D. 1989. Description of a new genus - Hammeriella gen. n. - from South America and a new family - Hammeriellidae fam. n. (Acari, Oribatei). Revista Brasiliera de Zoologica, São Paulo 6: 17-24.

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 Pheroliodidae includes ten genera and 66 species. Subias (2011) used a narrower concept of the family, including only five genera. The family reaches its highest level of diversity in South America, and includes a large number of arboreal species (Norton & Behan-Pelletier 2009). Four genera and 14 species have been reported from Australia, most of which were described by Hunt (1996). Colloff & Halliday (1998) placed some of these genera in the family Hammeriellidae, which is no longer considered as valid. Majer et al. (2013) recorded an unidentified species from Western Australia.

General References

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

Hunt, G.S. 1996. A review of the family Pheroliodidae Paschoal in Australia (Acarina: Cryptostigmata: Plateremaeoidea). Records of the Australian Museum 48: 325-358

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.

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]

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