Family SPHAEROCHTHONIIDAE Grandjean, 1947

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• Sphaerochthoniidae Grandjean, F. 1947. Les Enarthronota (Acariens). Première série. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie 11 8: 213-248.

Introduction

The family Sphaerochthoniidae includes two genera and 21 species world-wide (Schatz et al. 2011; Subias 2011). The Australian Sphaerochthoniidae are poorly known, with only a single known species, which is cosmopolitan, and which was collected under Eucalyptus in South Australia (Colloff & Halliday 1998). Unidentified species of Sphaerochthonius have been recorded from Australia a number of times, and unidentified Sphaerochthoniidae were also reported by Adolphson & Kinnear (2008).

General References

Adolphson, H. & Kinnear, A. 2008. Acari (mite) assemblages under plantations of bluegum, Eucalyptus globulus, in southwestern Australia. Pedobiologia 51: 427–437

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

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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