Winterschmidtiidae

Family of mites

Winterschmidtiidae
Saproglyphus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Oribatida
Superfamily: Hemisarcoptoidea
Family: Winterschmidtiidae
Oudemans, 1923
Type genus
Winterschmidtia
Oudemans, 1923
Synonyms
  • Saproglyphidae Oudemans, 1924
  • Czenspinskiidae Oudemans, 1927
  • Oulenziidae Oudemans, 1928
  • Calvoliinae Turk & Turk, 1957

Winterschmidtiidae is a family of mites in the order Astigmata.[1][2]

Ecology

The four subfamilies of Winterschmidtiidae have different habits: Ensliniellinae are associated with Hymenoptera; Winterschmidtiinae with wood-boring insects; Saproglyphinae with decaying materials, plant leaves and fungi; and Oulenziinae with leaves, vertebrate nests and stored foods. They are mostly detritivorous, though most Winterschmidtiinae are instead fungivorous and a few species are herbivorous.[3]

For some specific examples, species of Winterschmidtia and Parawinterschmidtia are associated with beetles living under bark (especially bark beetles), Vespacarus and Kennethiella with eumenine wasps and Vidia with Megachile bees.[2] The genus Psylloglyphus (which is in Oulenziinae[4]) is associated with fleas.[5]

Genera

These twenty-eight genera belong to the family Winterschmidtiidae:[6]

  • Acalvolia Fain, 1971
  • Allocalvolia Fain & Rack, 1987
  • Calvolia Oudemans, 1911
  • Congovidia Fain & Elsen, in Fain, 1971
  • Crabrovidia Zakhvatkin, 1941
  • Czenspinskia Oudemans, 1927
  • Ensliniella Vitzthum, 1925
  • Gambacarus Mahunka, 1975
  • Kennethiella Cooreman, 1954
  • Kurosaia Okabe & OConnor, 2002
  • Macroharpa Mostafa, 1970
  • Monobiacarus Baker & Cunliffe, 1960
  • Neocalvolia Hughes, 1970
  • Neosuidasia Ranganath & Channabasa, 1983
  • Neottiglyphus Volgin, 1974
  • Oulenzia Radford, 1950
  • Oulenziella Fan et al., 2015
  • Parawinterschmidtia Khaustov, 2000
  • Procalvolia Fain, 1971
  • Riemia Oudemans, 1925
  • Saproglyphus Berlese, 1890
  • Sphexicozela Mahunka, 1970
  • Trypetacarus Fain, 1971
  • Vespacarus Baker, 1960
  • Vidia Oudemans, 1905
  • Winterschmidtia Oudemans, 1923
  • Zethacarus Mostafa, 1971
  • Zethovidia Mostafa, 1970

References

  1. ^ "Winterschmidtiidae". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-02-18.
  2. ^ Barbosa, Marina Ferraz de Camargo; Moraes, Gilberto José de (2021-06-01). "Mites of the family Winterschmidtiidae (Acari: Sarcoptiformes: Astigmatina) from agricultural habitats in Brazil, with description of a new species and a key to species reported". Systematic and Applied Acarology. doi:10.11158/saa.26.6.3. ISSN 2056-6069. S2CID 235676259.
  3. ^ Fan, Qing-Hai; Faraji, Farid (2022-03-30). "Mites of the genus Oulenziella Fan and Zhang (Acari: Winterschmidtiidae), with description of a new species from Kenya" (PDF). Acarologia. 62 (1): 148–160. doi:10.24349/i2bo-zeic.
  4. ^ Hastriter, Michael; E. Bush, Sarah (2014-05-13). "Description of Medwayella independencia (Siphonaptera, Stivaliidae), a new species of flea from Mindanao Island, the Philippines and their phoretic mites, and miscellaneous flea records from the Malay Archipelago". ZooKeys (408): 107–123. Bibcode:2014ZooK..408..107H. doi:10.3897/zookeys.408.7479. ISSN 1313-2970. PMC 4042829. PMID 24899840.
  5. ^ Beron, Petar (2021). Acarorum Catalogus IX. Acariformes, Acaridida, Schizoglyphoidea (Schizoglyphidae), Histiostomatoidea (Histiostomatidae, Guanolichidae), Canestrinioidea (Canestriniidae, Chetochelacaridae, Lophonotacaridae, Heterocoptidae), Hemisarcoptoidea (Chaetodactylidae, Hyadesiidae, Algophagidae, Hemisarcoptidae, Carpoglyphidae, Winterschmidtiidae). Advanced Books. doi:10.3897/ab.e68613. ISBN 978-619-248-058-5.

Further reading

  • Gaud, Jean; Atyeo, Warren T. (1996). "Feather mites of the world (Acarina, Astigmata): the supraspecific taxa". Annales du Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale. Sciences Zoologiques.
  • Krantz, G.W.; Walter, D.E., eds. (2009). A Manual of Acarology. Texas Tech University Press. ISBN 9780896726208.
  • Pepato, A.R.; Klimov, P.B. (2015). "Origin and higher-level diversification of acariform mites--evidence from nuclear ribosomal genes, extensive taxon sampling, and secondary structure alignment". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 15: 178. doi:10.1186/s12862-015-0458-2. PMC 4557820. PMID 26330076.

External links

  • Media related to Winterschmidtiidae at Wikimedia Commons
Taxon identifiers
Winterschmidtiidae


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