Family ZETOMOTRICHIDAE Grandjean, 1954

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• Zetomotrichidae Grandjean, F. 1954. Zetomotrichus lacrimans. Acarien sauteur (Oribate) (Acar. Zetomotrichidae). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 123: 1-16.

Introduction

The family Zetomotrichidae includes 14 genera and 35 species that occur in tropical and subtropical latitudes world-wide (Schatz et al. 2011; Subias 2011). The family is known from Australia only by the endemic genus Anoplozetes, with a single described species from an arid site in South Australia (Lee & Pajak 1987). Unidentified species of Zetomotrichidae were also reported by Beyer et al. (2011), Callan et al. (2011) and Majer et al. (2013).

General References

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

Callan, S.K., Majer, J.D., Edwards, K. & Moro, D. 2011. Documenting the terrestrial invertebrate fauna of Barrow Island, Western Australia. Australian Journal of Entomology 50: 323–343

Lee, D.C. & Pajak, G.A. 1987. Anoplozetes, a new genus of Zetomotrichidae (Acarida : Cryptostigmata) from South Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 111: 99-103

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.

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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