Family SELLNICKIIDAE Balogh & Balogh, 1984

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• Sellnickiidae Balogh, J. & Balogh, P. 1984. A review of the Oribatuloidea Thor, 1929 (Acari : Oribatei). Acta Zoologica Hungarica 30: 257-313.

Introduction

The family Sellnickiidae includes a single genus and either one or two species that occur in New Zealand, Australia, and Indonesia (Subias 2011). The family has sometimes been considered as a synonym of Oribatulidae, but is here treated as a valid family following Norton & Behan-Pelletier (2009) and Schatz et al. (2011). The Australian fauna includes a single identified species that has been recorded from flowers and leaves in New South Wales and Queensland. Colloff & Halliday (1998) suggested that this is an arboreal species, and reviewed its nomenclatural history. There are also several records of unidentified specimens of Sellnickia from Australia.

General References

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

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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