Family SUCTOBELBIDAE Jacot, 1938

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• Suctobelbini Jacot, A.P. 1938. New moss-mites, chiefly mid-western - III. American Midland Naturalist 19: 647-657.

Introduction

The family Suctobelbidae is very large and cosmopolitan, with 31 genera and more than 300 species (Schatz et al. 2011; Subias 2011). The most recent large taxonomic study of the family was by Chinone (2003). Despite their diversity and abundance, the feeding habits of Suctbelbidae have not been fully studied (Norton & Behan-Pelletier 2009). The Australian fauna is very poorly known. Only a single species has been identified, and it is also known from New Zealand and India (Subias 2011). A further four genera are known only on the basis of unidentified species, and unidentified species of Suctobelbidae have been reported from Australia by Osler & Beattie (2001) and Osler & Murphy (2005).

General References

Chinone, S. 2003. Classification of the soil mites of the family Suctobelbidae (Oribatida) of Japan. Edaphologia 72: 1–110

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.

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

Osler, G.H.R. & Murphy, D.V. 2005. Oribatid mite species richness and soil organic matter fractions in agriculturall and native vegetation soils in Western Australia. Applied Soil Ecology 29: 93–98

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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