Family PSEUDOCHEYLIDAE Oudemans, 1909

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• Pseudochelidae Oudemans, A.C. 1909. Über die bis jetzt genauer bekannten Thrombidium-larven und über eine neue Klassifikation der Prostigmata. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 52: 19-61 pls 4-7 [original spelling].
• Pseudocheylidae Oudemans, A.C. 1909. Über die bis jetzt genauer bekannten Thrombidium-larven und über eine neue Klassifikation der Prostigmata. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 52: 19-61 pls 4-7 [emendation].

Introduction

Pseudocheylidae is a small and little-known family of lightly sclerotised elongate mites found in moss, leaf litter, birds' nests, and under bark (Baker & Atyeo 1964). They are believed to be predators, and the family appears to be cosmopolitan (Ueckermann & Khanjani 2004). Three named species in two genera are known from Australia. Unidentified species have been recorded from Australia a number of times as listed for each genus, and unidentified Pseudocheylidae were also reported by Springett (1976), Callan et al. (2011), Beyer et al. (2011) and Proctor et al. (2011).

General References

Baker, E.W. & Atyeo, W.T. 1964. A review of the mites of the family Pseudocheylidae Oudemans, 1909 (Acarina, Prostigmata). Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum 4: 257-272

Beyer, S., Kinnear, A., Hutley, L.B., McGuiness, K. & Gibb, K. 2011. Assessing the relationship between fire and grazing on soil characteristics and mite communities in a semi-arid savanna of northern Australia. Pedobiologia 54: 195–200

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

Proctor, H., Kanowski, J., Catterall, C.P., Wardell-Johnson, G. & Reis, T. 2011. Rainforest-restoration success as judged by assemblages of soil- and litter-dwelling mites (Arachnida: Acari). Zoosymposia 6: 234–254

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

Ueckermann, E.A. & Khanjani, M. 2004. A revision of the genus Anoplocheylus Berlese (Acari: Pseudocheylidae), with the description of two new and re-description of four known species. Systematic and Applied Acarology 9: 53–68

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