Genus Scheloribates Berlese, 1908

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• Scheloribates Berlese, A. 1908. Elenco di generi e specie nuove di acari. Redia. Giornale di entomologia, Firenze 5: 1-15 [first introduced as a subgenus of Protoribates Berlese, 1908].
• Megascheloribates Lee, D.C. & Pajak, G.A. 1990. Scheloribates Berlese and Megascheloribates gen. nov. from southeastern Australia, with comments on Scheloribatidae (Acarida : Cryptostigmata : Oriopodoidea). Invertebrate Taxonomy 4: 205-246.

Introduction

In addition to the named species listed here, unidentified species of Scheloribates have been reported from Australia by Roberts (1953), Lee & Southcott (1979), Moulton (1982), Malipatil & Blyth (1982), Lee (1986), Osler (1997), Colloff & Halliday (1998), Kinnear & Tongway (2004) and Adolphson & Kinnear (2008). Unidentified species were also reported from Australia by Hunt et al. (1998), Colloff & Halliday (1998) and Proctor et al. (2002), under the name Megascheloribates sp.

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.

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.

Kinnear, A. & Tongway, D. 2004. Grazing impacts on soil mites of semi-arid chenopod shrublands in Western Australia. Journal of Arid Environments 56: 63–82

Lee, D.C. 1986. Taxonomy and Distribution of Sarcoptiform Mites (Cryptostigmata and Astigmata: Acari) in South Australian Soils. PhD Thesis, University of Queensland, Brisbane. 272 pp.

Lee, D.C. & Southcott, R.V. 1979. Spiders and other Arachnids of South Australia. pp. 29-43 in Leonard, B.E. (ed.). South Australian Year Book No. 14. Adelaide : Australian Bureau of Statistics.

Malipatil, M.B. & Blyth, J.D. 1982. A qualitative study of the macroinvertebrate fauna of the Thomson River and its major tributaries, Gippsland, Victoria. Reports of the National Museum of Victoria 1: 1-95

Moulton, T.M. 1982. The effect of prescribed burning and simulated burning on soil and litter arthropods in open forest at Cordeaux, N.S.W. Australia. PhD Thesis, School of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University.

Osler, G.H.R. 1997. Factors Contributing to the Structure of Soil Mite Communities. PhD thesis, Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University. 212 pp.

Proctor, H.C., Montgomery, K.M., Rosen, K.E. & Kitching, R.L. 2002. Are tree trunks habitats or highways? A comparison of oribatid mite assemblages from hoop-pine bark and litter. Australian Journal of Entomology 41: 294–299

Roberts, F.H.S. 1953. Zygoribatula longiporosa Hammer (Oribatei : Acarina), an intermediate host of Moniezia benedeni (Moniez) (Anoplocephalidae : Cestoda) in Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 1: 239-241

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