Family SARCOPTIDAE Murray, 1877

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• Sarcoptidae Murray, A. 1877. Economic Entomology. Aptera. South Kensington Museum Science Handbook no. 1. London : Chapman and Hall 433 pp.

Introduction

The 177 known species of Sarcoptidae are parasites that burrow in the skin of mammalian hosts (OConnor 2009). Bochkov (2010) reviewed the world fauna, and Klompen (1992) proposed a phylogeny of the family. The family includes the common scabies mite Sarcoptes scabiei, which sometimes causes significant pathology in humans and domesticated mammals (Mullen & OConnor 2009). The Australian species occur on rodents, marsupials, bats, domesticated mammals, and humans (catalogued by Domrow, 1992). Since then Bochkov (2012) has described a new genus with one new species.

Bochkov (2010) listed Teinocoptes haymani Fain, 1963 as occurring in "Australia", without further qualification. However, that statement is based on a broad concept of the Australian biogeographic region, which includes areas that are not part of Australia as defined here. This species was described from Vanuatu and has not been recorded from Australia. The same is true for Nycteridocoptes notopteris Klompen, 1992 (Fiji and New Caledonia).

Excluded Taxa

Misidentifications

Sarcoptidae: Nycteridocoptes notopteris Klompen, 1992 — Klompen, J.S.H. 1992. Phylogenetic relationships in the mite family Sarcoptidae (Acari: Astigmata). Miscellaneous Publications, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan 180: 1-154

Sarcoptidae: Teinocoptes haymani Fain, 1963 — Fain, A. 1963. Les acariens psoriques parasites des chauvres-souris 24.- Deux nouvelles espèces du genre Teinocoptes Rodhain (Teinocoptidae : Sarcoptiformes). Bulletin et Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 99: 101–106

General References

Bochkov, A.V. 2010. A review of mammal-associated Psoroptidia (Acariformes: Astigmata). Acarina. Russian Journal of Acarology 18: 99–260

Bochkov, A.V. 2012. Macropodicoptes mironovi n.g., n.sp. (Acariformes: Sarcoptidae), a new mange mite from Wallabia bicolor (Desmarest) (Diprotodonia: Macropodidae). Systematic Parasitology 83: 29–38

Domrow, R. 1992. Acari Astigmata (excluding feather mites) parasitic on Australian vertebrates: an annotated checklist, keys and bibliography. Invertebrate Taxonomy 6: 1459-1606

Klompen, J.S.H. 1992. Phylogenetic relationships in the mite family Sarcoptidae (Acari: Astigmata). Miscellaneous Publications, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan 180: 1-154

Mullen, G.R. & OConnor, B.M. 2009. Mites (Acari). pp. 433-492 in Mullen, G.R. & Durden, L.A. Medical and Veterinary Entomology. Amsterdam : Elsevier 2.

OConnor, B.M. 2009. Cohort Astigmatina. pp. 565–657 in Krantz, G.W. & Walter, D.E. (eds). A Manual of Acarology. Lubbock, Texas : Texas Tech University Press Third edition, 807 pp.

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