Family QUADROPPIIDAE Balogh, 1983

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• Quadroppinae Balogh, J. 1983. A partial revision of the Oppiidae Grandjean, 1954 (Acari : Oribatei). Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungariae 29: 1-79.

Introduction

The family Quadroppiidae includes five genera and 43 species world-wide (Schatz et al. 2011). The family is cosmopolitan, but the summary presented by Subias (2011) suggests that its greatest diversity occurs in the Palaearctic Region. The family is known from Australia only on the basis of unidentified species in the genus Quadroppia, from temperate and subtropical rainforest in New South Wales and Queensland, as reported by Walter (1995), Osler (1997), Hunt et al. (1998), Colloff & Halliday (1998) and 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.

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

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]

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)

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