Family TREMATURIDAE Berlese, 1917

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

Introduction

The family Trematuridae as used here includes about 400 species. Hirschmann & Wisniewski (1989, 1993) placed all the species in the single genus Trichouropoda. They arranged the species in a series of species groups, which were previously treated as genera or subgenera. The status of these genus-level taxa is unresolved, and a revised future classification will probably divide the species among ten or more genera. The family is cosmopolitan, and includes species that occur in bark beetle galleries, soil and litter, and sometimes in the nests of ants and small mammals. The deutonymphs are phoretic on a variety of insects, especially beetles in the families Cerambycidae and Scolytidae. The Australian fauna includes five species, four of which are known from deutonymphs phoretic on brentid beetles. The other species, T. orbicularis, has been reported many times from a wide variety of locations and habitats. It is likely that this name has been applied to several different species.

General References

Hirschmann, W. & Wisniewski, J. 1989. Gangsystematik der Parasitiformes. Teil 507. Weltweite Revision der Ganggattung Trichouropoda Berlese 1916. Geschichte, Bestimmungstabellen, Artenverzeichnisse (Trichouropodini, Uropodinae). Acarologie. Schriftenreihe für Vergleichende Milbenkunde 36: 1-65

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

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