Bdellidae

Bdellidae

Bdellidae

Family of mites

Bdellidae is a family of snout mites in the order Trombidiformes. There are about 11 genera and at least 260 described species in Bdellidae.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

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In terms of size, they are medium to large-sized predatory mites. They are known to inhabit soil, leaves, as well as intertidal rocks. They can be easily recognized by their elongated, snout-like gnathosoma pedipalps bearing two (one in Monotrichobdella) long terminal setae.[6]

Genera

  • Bdella Latreille, 1795
  • Biscirus Thor, 1913
  • Cyta von Heyden, 1826
  • Hexabdella van Der Schyff, Theron & Ueckermann, 2004
  • Monotrichobdella Baker & Balock, 1944
  • Neomolgus Oudemans, 1937
  • Odontoscirus Thor, 1913
  • Polytrichus van Der Schyff, Theron & Ueckermann, 2003
  • Spinibdella Thor, 1930
  • Tetrabdella Hernandes & Feres, 2006
  • Trachymolgus Berlese, 1923
  • A mite (Bdellidae) sucks on a dead midge

References

  1. [1]
    "Bdellidae Family Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
  2. [2]
    "Bdellidae Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
  3. [3]
    "Bdellidae Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
  4. [4]
    "Browse Bdellidae". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
  5. [5]
    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. BioMed Central: 178. doi:10.1186/s12862-015-0458-2. PMC 4557820. PMID 26330076.
  6. [6]
    Hernandes, Fabio A.; Skvarla, Michael J.; Fisher, J. Ray; Dowling, Ashley P. G.; Ochoa, Ronald; Ueckermann, Edward A.; Bauchan, Gary R. (2016-08-17). "Catalogue of snout mites (Acariformes: Bdellidae) of the world". Zootaxa. 4152 (1): 1–83. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4152.1.1. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 27615820.

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