Family TRACHYUROPODIDAE Berlese, 1917

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• Trachyuropodini Berlese, A. 1917. Intorno agli Uropodidae. Redia. Giornale di entomologia, Firenze 13: 7-16.

Introduction

The cosmopolitan family Trachyuropodidae includes about 100 species. Hirschmann & Wisniewski (1993) placed all the species in the single genus Trachyuropoda. They arranged the species in a series of species groups, which have sometimes been treated as genera or subgenera. The European fauna was reviewed by Karg (1989) and Mašán (2001). Trachyuropodids are found in soil, leaf litter, moss, and compost, and under bark, and many species have been found associated with ants or in their nests. The Australian fauna includes three myrmecophilous species that were described by Banks (1916) and Hull (1923), and have not been reported since, except in faunal lists. The identity and taxonomic placement of all three species must be considered as unconfirmed.

General References

Banks, N. 1916. Acarians from Australian and Tasmanian ants and ant-nests. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 40: 224-240 pls XXIII-XXX

Hirschmann, W. & Wisniewski, J. 1993. Acari Parasitiformes. Supercohors Atrichopygidiina Hirschmann 1975. Die Uropodiden der Erde. Acarologie. Schriftenreihe für Vergleichende Milbenkunde 40: 1-466

Hull, J.E. 1923. New myrmecophilous gamasids. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9 12: 610-617

Karg, W. 1989. Acari (Acarina), Milben, Unterordnung Parasitiformes (Anactinochaeta). Uropodina Kramer, Schildkrötenmilben. Die Tierwelt Deutschlands und der angrenzenden Meeresteile 67: 1–203

Mašán, P. 2001. Mites of the Cohort Uropodina (Acarina, Mesostigmata) in Slovakia. Annotationes Zoologicae et Botanicae, Bratislava 223: 1–320

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