Genus Speleorchestes Trägårdh, 1909

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• Speleorchestes Trägårdh, I. 1909. Speleorchestes, a new genus of saltatorial Trombidiidae, which lives in termites' and ants' nests. Arkiv för Zoologi 6(2): 1–14.

 

Introduction

The genus Speleorchestes is known from Australia only on the basis of unidentified species, reported by Wood (1970, 1971), Rounsevell & Greenslade (1988), Noble et al. (1990, 1996a, 1996b), Kinnear (1991), Longstaff et al. (1999), Osler et al. (2000), Kinnear & Tongway (2004), Adolphson & Kinnear (2008), Walter (2009), Proctor et al. (2011), Beyer et al. (2011) and Majer et al. (2013).

 

General References

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

Beyer, S., Kinnear, A., Hutley, L.B., McGuiness, K. & Gibb, K. 2011. Assessing the relationship between fire and grazing on soil characteristics and mite communities in a semi-arid savanna of northern Australia. Pedobiologia 54: 195–200

Kinnear, A. 1991. Acarine communities of semi-arid soils from the the Eastern Goldfields region of Western Australia. Pedobiologia 35: 273-283

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

Longstaff, B.C., Greenslade, P.J.M., Colloff, M., Reid, I., Hart, P. & Packer, I. 1999. Managing Soils in Agriculture. The Impact of Soil Tillage Practices on Soil Fauna. Canberra, Australia : Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation Publication No 99/18. pp. 65.

Majer, J.D., Callan, S.K., Edwards, K., Gunawardene, N.R. & Taylor, C.K. 2013. Baseline survey of the terrestrial invertebrate fauna of Barrow Island. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 83: 13-112.

Noble, J.C., Kaliszewski, M. & Whitford, W.G. 1990. Soil Acari from burnt and unburnt mallee habitats in western New South Wales. pp. 224-225 in Noble, J.C., Joss, P.J. & Jones, G.K. (eds). The Mallee Lands: A Conservation Perspective. Melbourne : CSIRO Publications.

Noble, J.C., Tongway, D.J., Roper, M.M. & Whitford, W.G. 1996a. Fire studies in mallee (Eucalyptus spp.) communities of western New South Wales: spatial and temporal fluxes in soil chemistry and soil biology following prescribed fire. Pacific Conservation Biology 2: 398-413

Noble, J.C., Whitford, W.G. & Kaliszewski, M. 1996b. Soil and litter microarthropod populations from two contrasting ecosystems in semi-arid eastern Australia. Journal of Arid Environments 32: 329-346

Osler, G.H.R., van Vliet, P.C.J., Gauci, C.S. & Abbott, L.K. 2000. Changes in free living soil nematode and micro-arthropod communities under a canola-wheat-lupin rotation in Western Australia. Australian Journal of Soil Research 38: 47–59

Proctor, H., Kanowski, J., Catterall, C.P., Wardell-Johnson, G. & Reis, T. 2011. Rainforest-restoration success as judged by assemblages of soil- and litter-dwelling mites (Arachnida: Acari). Zoosymposia 6: 234–254

Rounsevell, D.E. & Greenslade, P. 1988. Cuticle structure and habitat in the Nanorchestidae (Acari : Prostigmata). Hydrobiologia 165: 209-212

Walter, D.E. 2009. Suborder Endeostigmata. pp. 421-429 in Krantz, G.W. & Walter, D.E. (eds). A Manual of Acarology. Lubbock, Texas : Texas Tech University Press Third edition, 807 pp.

Wood, T.G. 1970. Micro-arthropods from soils of the arid zone in Southern Australia. Search 1: 75

Wood, T.G. 1971. The distribution and abundance of Folsomides deserticola (Collembola: Isotomidae) and other micro-arthropods in arid and semi-arid soils in southern Australia, with a note on nematode populations. Pedobiologia 11: 446-468

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-May-2017	Acari	17-Jan-2017	MODIFIED	Dr Bruce Halliday
07-May-2013		07-May-2013	MODIFIED
07-May-2013		07-Aug-2012	MOVED
		10-Mar-2011	ADDED