Trombidioidea
| Trombidioidea Temporal range:
| |
|---|---|
| Allothrombium | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Trombidiformes |
| Infraorder: | Anystina |
| Superfamily: | Leach, 1815 |
Trombidioidea is a superfamily of mites in the order Trombidiformes. There are about 8 families and at least 430 described species in Trombidioidea.[1][2]
Families
These eight families belong to the superfamily Trombidioidea:
- Eutrombidiidae
- Johnstonianidae
- Microtrombidiidae (micro velvet mites)
- Neothrombiidae
- Neotrombidiidae
- Podothrombidiidae (podothrombidiids)
- Trombiculidae (chiggers)
- Trombidiidae (true velvet mites)
Others unplaced:
- ?Platyseta Wharton, 1938
References
- ^ "Trombidioidea Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-04-13.
- ^ "Trombidioidea Superfamily Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-04-13.
Further reading
- Halliday, R.B.; O'connor, O'B.M.; Baker, A.S. (2000). Raven, P.H. (ed.). "Global diversity of mites". Nature and Human Society—the Quest for a Sustainable World. National Academy Press: 192–203. doi:10.17226/6142.
- 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.
- Skoracki, M.; Zabludovskaya, S.; Bochkov, A.V. (2012). "A review of Prostigmata (Acariformes: Trombidiformes) permanently associated with birds". Acarina. 20: 67–107.
- Zhang, Z.-Q.; Fan, Q.-H.; Pesic, V.; Smit, H.; et al. (2011). Zhang, Z.-Q. (ed.). "Order Trombidiformes Reuter, 1909. In: Zhang, Z-Q. (ed.) Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness" (PDF). Zootaxa. 3148.
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