Genus Protoribates Berlese, 1908

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• Protoribates Berlese, A. 1908. Elenco di generi e specie nuove di acari. Redia. Giornale di entomologia, Firenze 5: 1-15.
• Xylobates Jacot, A.P. 1929. Genera of Pterogasterine Oribatidae (Acarina). Transactions of the American Microscopical Society 48: 416–430.

Introduction

The genus Protoribates is known from Australia only on the basis of unidentified species, as reported by Moulton (1982), Lee (1986), Osler (1997), Hunt et al. (1998), Colloff & Halliday (1998) and Shaw (1999). Unidentified species of Protoribates were also reported by Lee (1986) and Walter (1995, 1999) under the name Xylobates (see Colloff & Halliday, 1998). An unidentified species of Xylobates was also reported from Australia by Osler & Beattie (2001).

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., Colloff, M.J., Dallwitz, M. & Walter, D.E. 1998. An Interactive Key to Oribatid Mites of Australia (CD-ROM). Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing.

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.

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. & Beattie, A.J. 2001. Contribution of oribatid and mesostigmatid soil mites in ecologically based estimates of global species richness. Austral Ecology 26: 70–79

Shaw, M. 1999. Mites and ticks from wedge-tailed shearwater (Puffinus pacificus) burrows on Masthead Island. Queensland Naturalist 37: 43-47

Walter, D.E. 1995. Dancing on the head of a pin: mites in the rainforest canopy. pp. 49-53 in M.S. Harvey (ed.). Australasian Spiders and their Relatives: Papers Honouring Barbara York Main. Records of the Western Australian Museum 52(Supplement)

Walter, D.E. 1999. Living on leaves: adaptations of Australian rainforest mites. pp. 73–78 in Needham, G.R., Mitchell, R., Horn, D.J. & Welbourn, W.C. Acarology IX. Volume 2. Symposia. Columbus, Ohio : Ohio Biological Survey.

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