Family SCUTOVERTICIDAE Grandjean, 1954

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• Scutovertexidae Grandjean, F. 1954. Essai de classification des Oribates (Acariens). Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 78: 421-446 [original spelling].

Introduction

The family Scutoverticidae includes nine genera and 72 species world-wide (Schatz et al. 2011), as recently revised by Shtanchaeva & Netuzhilin (2003). The family is cosmopolitan, and is most abundant in xeric and arboreal habitats (Norton & Behan-Pelletier 2009). The family is known from Australia only by an incompletely identified species of Scutovertex recorded by Adolphson & Kinnear (2008), and an unidentified species of fossil Scutoverticidae (O'Dowd et al. 1991). The original spelling of this name was Scutovertexidae, but the emended name Scutoverticidae is in almost universal usage, and is retained here in the interest of stability.

General References

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

Norton, R.A. & Behan-Pelletier, V.M. 2009. Suborder Oribatida. pp. 430–564 in Krantz, G.W. & Walter, D.E. (eds). A Manual of Acarology. Lubbock, Texas : Texas Tech University Press Third edition, 807 pp.

O'Dowd, D.J., Brew, C.R., Christophel, D.C. & Norton, R.A. 1991. Mite-plant associations from the Eocene of southern Australia. Science (Washington, D.C.) 252: 99-101

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.

Shtanchaeva, U. & Netuzhilin, I. 2003. Review of the world fauna of Scutoverticidae (Acari, Oribatida), with description of new species. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 82: 781–803

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