Winterschmidtiidae

Winterschmidtiidae
Saproglyphus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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.

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.

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. The genus Psylloglyphus (which is in Oulenziinae) is associated with fleas.

Genera

These twenty-eight genera belong to the family Winterschmidtiidae:

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: 1040–1054. 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.

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